Identities : : Time, Difference and Boundaries /

Identities : : Time, Difference and Boundaries / / ed. by Heidrun Friese.

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"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relate...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baumann, Gerd,
Bronfen, Elisabeth,
Friese, Heidrun,
Fuchs, Martin,
Geulen, Christian,
Hahn, Barbara,
Henry, Barbara,
Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen,
Rüsen, Jörn,
Shimada, Shingo,
Sivan, Emanuel,
Straub, Jürgen,
Wagner, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Friese, Heidrun,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the Series
  • Introduction
  • I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS
  • Chapter 1 Identity: Desire, Name and Difference
  • Chapter 2 Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique
  • Chapter 3 Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis
  • Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance
  • II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION
  • Chapter 5 The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference
  • Chapter 6 Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation
  • III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY
  • Chapter 7 The Performance of Hysteria
  • Chapter 8 The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY
  • Chapter 9 Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory
  • Chapter 10 Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa
  • Chapter 11 Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism
  • Chapter 12 Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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