Westernness : : Critical Reflections on the Spatio-temporal Construction of the West / / ed. by Holt Meyer, Sergey Sistiaga, Christopher Gogwilt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Doubek, Vratislav,; Fraisse, Ottfried,; Gleixner, Johannes,; GoGwilt, Christopher,; Klemme, Heiner F.,; Mauntel, Christoph,; Meyer, Holt,; Penner, Yulia,; Salaymeh, Lena,; Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin,; Vinzent, Markus,
• HerausgeberIn: Gogwilt, Christopher,; Meyer, Holt,; Sistiaga, Sergey,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit : Practices-Concepts-Media / Praktiken - Konzepte - Medien , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 261 p.)

The word "West" is omnipresent and often unquestioned. The goal of this volume is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The articles focus on spatio‐temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. Taking critical perspectives, which view the West from the inside and the outside, they address issues of highest political and social relevance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Before Westernness -- Competing with the East -- The Westernness of Philosophy -- ‘What is foreign becomes close and what is close becomes foreign’. Ethics and Geography in the Works of Meister Eckhart -- Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant -- On the Universal Notion of a Person -- The Westernness of Orientalism -- Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam Between East and West -- The “good Orientalists” -- The Westernness of Europe -- In the Center But Not in the Middle: T. G. Masaryk and Czech Geopolitical Discussions in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- The Westernness of (The) Americans -- Televising the West: The Television Set of The Americans -- Russian Orthodoxy as Constitutive of Westernness in The Americans -- Western Reflections: The Mirrored Real and the Imaginary in The Americans -- After Westernness -- Reinventing the West: The Invention of the West 25 Years Later -- A Brief Genealogy of the West -- About the Authors