The Author: Ewa Borkowska is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). She has published two books and a number of articles on Cultural Studies and European poetry (English, German and Polish). Her research interests also include the studies in aesthetics, philosophy, East/Central European Cultural Studies and music.

• Contents: Philosophical/poetic dialogue with Other(ness) – The Other – Poetic epiphanies – «Language of stone» – Silence – Emigration – Memory and recollection – Home and homelessness – Gestures of hospitality in poetic dialogues – Intersubjectivity – Metaphysical desire – Ethical metaphysics.

The Author: Ewa Borkowska is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). She has published two books and a number of articles on Cultural Studies and European poetry (English, German and Polish). Her research interests also include the studies in aesthetics, philosophy, East/Central European Cultural Studies and music.

• Contents: Philosophical/poetic dialogue with Other(ness) – The Other – Poetic epiphanies – «Language of stone» – Silence – Emigration – Memory and recollection – Home and homelessness – Gestures of hospitality in poetic dialogues – Intersubjectivity – Metaphysical desire – Ethical metaphysics.

The Author: Ewa Borkowska is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). She has published two books and a number of articles on Cultural Studies and European poetry (English, German and Polish). Her research interests also include the studies in aesthetics, philosophy, East/Central European Cultural Studies and music.

• Contents: Philosophical/poetic dialogue with Other(ness) – The Other – Poetic epiphanies – «Language of stone» – Silence – Emigration – Memory and recollection – Home and homelessness – Gestures of hospitality in poetic dialogues – Intersubjectivity – Metaphysical desire – Ethical metaphysics.