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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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:European Conceptual History ; 8
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