Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' : : Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse /

Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' : : Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse / / ed. by Kirill Postoutenko.

Forty years ago, German historian Reinhart Koselleck coined the notion of ‘asymmetrical concepts’, pointing at the asymmetry between standard self-ascriptions, such as ‘Hellenes’ or ‘Christians’, and pejorative other-references (‘Barbarians’ or ‘Pagans’) as a powerful weapon of cultural and politica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Basabe, Nere,
Jong, Wim de,
Kozlovski, Kirill,
León, Pablo Sánchez,
Libell, Monica,
López, Iñaki Iriarte,
Manso, Ana Isabel González,
Marzec, Wiktor,
Paradies, Paul,
Postoutenko, Kirill,
Rantala, Heli,
Sfoini, Alexandra,
Sánchez-Mejía, María Luisa,
Torres, Luis Fernández,
HerausgeberIn:
Postoutenko, Kirill,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:European Conceptual History ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction ‘Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts’ Chances and Challenges
  • Chapter 1 Treason as Touchstone: Asymmetrical Relations between ‘Heathens’ and ‘Christians’ in Middle High German Epic Literature
  • Chapter 2 ‘Blond Flowing Hair’, ‘Tumid Lips’, ‘Rigid Posture’ and ‘Choleric Temperament’ Universal Aspirations and Racial Asymmetries in Linnaeus’s Descriptions of Homo Sapiens
  • Chapter 3 The Contribution of Asymmetrical Concepts to the Building of Spanish Liberal Discourse in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Methodological Reflections and Applications
  • Chapter 4 ‘Kultur’/‘Bildung’ vs ‘Civilization’ A Close Look at One Conceptual Asymmetry in the Early Nineteenth-Century Finnish Discourse
  • Chapter 5 Liberales vs Serviles: Symmetrization of Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts and Political Polarization in Spain and Portugal (1810–34)
  • Chapter 6 ‘Hellenes’ Revisited: Asymmetrical Concepts in the Language of the Greek Revolution
  • Chapter 7 ‘Civilization’ and ‘Barbarity’ in French Liberal Discourse during the Conquest and Colonization of Algeria
  • Chapter 8 ‘People’, ‘Plebs’ and the Changing Boundaries of the Political: Asymmetrical Conceptualizations in Spanish Liberalism from a Comparative European Perspective
  • Chapter 9 ‘Order’ vs ‘Chaos’ Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts and Ideological Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Poland
  • Chapter 10 Dutch McCarthyism? The Asymmetrical Opposition of ‘Democracy’ and ‘Communism’ in Holland between 1920 and 1990
  • Chapter 11 Asymmetrical Oppositions and Hierarchical Structures in Soviet Musical Criticism: The Case of the Essay Collection Za rubezhom (Abroad) (1953)
  • Chapter 12 ‘We the Basques’, and the ‘Other(s)’ Ethnic Asymmetries in Basque Nationalist Discourse
  • Conclusion: Beyond ‘Hellenes’ and ‘Barbarians’
  • Index

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