Encountering the Other / Spotkanie z innym

"When I reflect on my journeys throughout the world, which have gone on for so long, it sometimes strikes me that the most troubling problems were not so much borders and front lines, or the exertion and the danger, as the constantly recurring uncertainty about the nature and course of my encounters with Others, with the other people I came across somewhere along the way..." The Inaugural Lecture of the Thirty-Sixth Annual School of Polish Language and Culture at the Jagiellonian University, July 5, 2005