On Thinking in the Perspective of Homelessness. Daidalos, kharis, ikelos Cover Image
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Myślenie w perspektywie bezdomności. Daidalos, kharis, ikelos
On Thinking in the Perspective of Homelessness. Daidalos, kharis, ikelos

Author(s): Wojciech Michera
Subject(s): Philosophy, Literary Texts, Theology and Religion
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: anthropology;homelessness;hospitality;

Summary/Abstract: Although the ethics of “hospitality” alleviates the outcome of ethics based on separating from and resisting otherness, the object of our concern remains the identity of the host. The author – while acknowledging that the as if source figure of the “incomer” is a woman reflects on the possibility of crossing such a perspective: in doing so he seeks symptoms of such a manner of thought, which treats “otherness” not as the effect of the appearance of the “guest” but as a primeval state. In the second part of the article this conceptual model is in particular the Greek conceit of daidalos – a special image created according to a modern intellectual model based on separating and putting together, whose visual effect is scintillation, connected with such categories as: kharis and ikelos.

  • Issue Year: 316/2017
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 121-130
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish