The re-enchantment of the world: the Shibboleth effect

Julia Romanowska

Chapter 22 in Leadership, Art, and Responsibility, 2026, pp 248-250 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter unfolds the aestemethical space of Shibboleth as a re-enchanted room of experience – an art event set apart from the everyday, where instrumental reason loosens its grip and another way of being becomes possible. Within this liminal, bounded space, participants cross the threshold of the given order of common sense and power, entering an encounter where the aesthetic, the emotional, and the ethical are inseparably entwined. Here, something yet unlived is brought into presence. Through imagination and feeling, time and place begin to waver; experience settles into the body, reaching depths ordinarily untouched by habitual perception. What takes shape is not understanding in its familiar sense, but a movement beyond comprehension – an opening towards ambiguity, difference, and lived density. The aestemethical space holds together openness and form: its boundaries do not bend to the participant's will but resist, contain, and sustain. As inner movement intensifies and repression loosens, these limits become a condition for vulnerability without disintegration. Transformation appears as a crossing from what is known into what is not yet known. It demands patience, emotional commitment, and a willingness to let something old fall away so that something truer may come forth. In this threshold movement – a Shibboleth – vision widens and the world multiplies. Freedom emerges not as self-affirmation, but as difficult, adult freedom: to be moved, addressed, and summoned into responsibility. In being moved, the singular within each person may emerge – and, in that emergence, begin to move the world.

Keywords: Shibboleth Effect; Aestemethical Space; Art Event as Dissensus; Threshold Experience; Re-enchantment; Embodied Transformation; Difficult Freedom; Ethical Ewakening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781049403991
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