The article reflects on the author's journey to understand the concept of world-making through personal experiences with music and philosophical influences. The author emphasizes how the line "When you own the world, you’re always home" resonates deeply with their understanding of belonging and connection. Drawing from Hannah Arendt and Martha C. Nussbaum, they explore the idea of finding a sense of home in the world without the need for ownership. This inquiry is critical, especially in the context of the democratic crisis in Poland, indicating the importance of emotions in political discourse.
I experience music as a basic form of sense-making, meaning that things open up to me through it (or that it opens things up for me).
How do we arrive at some sense of being at home in the world without aspiring to own it - without seeing everybody and everything around us as extensions of ourselves?
This book is important to me because I'm interested in the category of wonder Nussbaum discusses there, albeit very briefly.
My finishing the thesis coincided with the beginning of the crisis of democratic institutions in Poland brought about by the right-ward shift in political power.
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