Introduction: Revisitng the Political Value of Culturally Versatile Everyday Expressions of Democracy, Dialogue, Memory ( Idit Alphandary and Leszek Koczanowicz ); Part One: Democracy and Memory at the Crossroads of Dialogue and Tolerance in Everyday Life 1. Everyday Dialogue, Memory, and Democracy ( Leszek Koczanowicz ); 2. The Idea of Tolerance and Social Dialogue in the Democratic State: Remarks on Jacques Derrida's and Jürgen Habermas's views on the idea of tolerance in the modern liberal-democratic state ( Pawel Dybel ); 3. Exception, Metaphor, and Political Action: Arendt contra Schmitt ( Ewa Plonowska Ziarek ); 4. Radical Politics: "We, the People" or "we mortals" ( Krzysztof Ziarek ); 5. Dialogue as the Tool Enhancing the Effectiveness of NGO's Activities in Modern Societies ( Tomasz Grzyb, Katarzyna Byrka and Dariusz Dolinski ); Part Two: Art and Literature as Custodians of Traumatic Memory, Resistance and Forgiveness in Democracy 6. Community at the Table ( Dorota Koczanowicz ); 7. The Thought from Outside: Memory, Truth and the Repetition of Faith ( Ramona Fotiade ); 8.

You Have to Write Your Own Life: Storytelling as the Modern Piece of Resistance ( Agata Bielik-Robson ); 9. Duras vs. Duras: Traumatic Memory and the Question of Deferred Retroaction ( Eran Dorfman ); 10. The Shifting Landscape of Jewishness in Contemporary Kafka Criticism ( Abraham Rubin ); 11. Forgiveness, Resentment, and Responsibility are Heterogeneous to Politics W.G. Sebald's "Max Ferber" ( Idit Alphandary ).