Author Description

Dream Democracy constructs a philosophy and practice of hospitality to the Other It projects a culture and politics of welcoming the strangers minorities women where art as activism plays a key part that is why the author analyzes feminist antifascist and queer works including Pussy Riots performance art LGBTQ visibility campaigns and exhibitions and initiatives of rebuilding Jewish life in Lublin Poland Grodzka GateNN Theater Center Transeuropa Festival This book interprets intertextually passages on hospitality and utopia from the Mahabharata the Bible Ernst Bloch Hannah Arendt Maria Janion Hlene Cixous Adam Michnik Martha C Nussbaum Jos Esteban Munoz and the younger generation of Polish activists Here is a performative book which is profound intellectually and socially engaged for the cause of welcoming the Stranger against prejudices and neoliberal exploitation