Contemporary Philosophy of Dialogue

1. Promoting in participants dialogical attitude.

2. Making participants familiar with a contemporary theories of dialogue.

3. Approaching contemporary challenges in building dialogical relations.

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Franz Rosenzweig

Week 3: Martin Buber

Week 4: Emmanuel Lévinas

Week 5: Analogical paradigm as a foundation of dialogue

Week 6: Enrique Dussel

Week 7: Paulo Freire

Week 8: Jorge Luis Borges

Week 9: Reyes Mate

Week 10: Ortega y Gasset

Week 11: Józef Tischner

Week 12: The project of dialogical society

Week 13: Utopias vs. dystopias

Week 14: Philosophy of revolt: Camus and Vercors

Week 15: Limits of dialogue

Jorge Luis Borges & Oswaldo Ferrari, In Dialogue

Jorge Luis Borges Autobiography

Martin Buber I and Thou

Albert Camus The Rebel

Enrique Dussel Transmodernity and Interculturality: An Interpretation from the Perspective of Philosophy of Liberation

Enrique Dussel Philosophy of Liberation

Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszyńska & Piotr Leśniewski The culture of memory: the approach of Reyes Mate

Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszyńska & Piotr Leśniewski “The Kindly Ones” (Les Bienveillantes): The Red Herrings within a Theory of Intercultural Rationality

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Philip Larkin This Be the Verse

Emmanuel Lévinas, Existence and Existents

Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones

Thomas Merton The Seven Storey Mountain

George Orwell 1984

Walter Redmond Recent Themes in Catholic Social Thought in Latin America (+ short commentary 40 years later)

Franz Rosenzweig The Star of Redemption

J.R.R, Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories (Tree and Leaf)

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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