The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity / / ed. by Hans G. Kippenberg, Birgit Mersmann.

Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplin...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Reconfiguring the Humanities
  • Part I: Transnational Interpolations of the Humanities
  • Transnational History versus International History: A Case of Revisionism ?
  • The Transnational Study of Culture: A Plea for Translation
  • Migrant, Nomad, Traveler – Towards a Transnational Art History
  • Art History and the Culture of the Image: A Manifesto for Global Art History
  • Part II: Revisions of Modernity with and against Globality
  • Globality and Modernity: Making Concepts Raise Research Questions
  • ‘African Renaissance’ – Between Pan-African Rhetoric and the Reality of National Identity Politics
  • Feeling Modern: Narratives of Slavery as Entangled Literary History
  • Theses on the Future of Language
  • Western Modernism at and beyond the Margins: František Kupka and Margaret Preston
  • Modern Work and Identity
  • Part III: Per/versions of Cultural Diversity: Including Exclusions
  • Global Pressures and Cultural Relativity: The Case of Media Anthropology
  • Long-Term Power Presentation Shifts: From Key Audio-Visual Narratives to an Update of Elias’s Theory on the Process of Civilization
  • Inner Language Spaces: Migration and Plurilingualism from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
  • Relational Diversity: Religious Pluralization and Politics of Cohesion
  • Manifesting Religion in Public: A Universal Human Right – An International Law – National Restrictions
  • Part IV: Peroration
  • Devolvement: From Modern Humanities towards Global Humanities
  • List of Illustrations
  • About the Authors
  • Index
  • Backmatter