Westernness : : Critical Reflections on the Spatio-temporal Construction of the West /

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

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. Takin...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 261 p.)
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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

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