ABSTRACT
Levinas and his philosophy will be the starting point. As analysed in the part concerned with Myth Levinas introduces a concept of personal responsibility we owe to Others which has been placed upon us without our consent. He explains that the most basic mode of responsibility is the approach to the face. At the same time the face of the Other is nothing but verticality and uprightness. Koakowski's thought can be supplemented with Bauman's opinion that what is crucial today is solidarity. Moreover, it is solidarity which most staunchly acknowledges dialogism of a situation in the postmodern era. Gadamer conceives of language as a medium in which understanding is affected. It is a place in which an all and, thus, unique sense is created. The hope of postmodernity is related to Levinasian and Gadamerian non-self-sufficiency of the Individual, the Speech and the Text sensu largo, which refer to what is Other and even Utopian.
