Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries

Published by Berghahn Books 2002

Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Edited by: Heidrun Friese

Volume 2 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389804

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About this book

"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.

Author / Editor information

Heidrun Friese has published widely on social theory and time, the anthropology of the sciences, and social imagination. She is currently at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Heidrun Friese Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the Series Jörn Rüsen Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Heidrun Friese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS
Chapter 1 Identity: Desire, Name and Difference Heidrun Friese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2 Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique Peter Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter 3 Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance Barbara Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION
Chapter 5 The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference Martin Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6 Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation Shingo Shimada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY
Chapter 7 The Performance of Hysteria Elisabeth Bronfen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 8 The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries Barbara Hahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY
Chapter 9 Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory Gerd Baumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 10 Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter 11 Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism Christian Geulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Chapter 12 Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism Emanuel Sivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: History (General); Literary Studies; Anthropology (General); Sociology

eBook

Published: December 1, 2002
ISBN: 9781782389804