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9781571814746

Identities

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  • ISBN13:

    9781571814746

  • ISBN10:

    1571814744

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Heidrun Friese
Preface to the Series viii
Jorn Rusen
Introduction 1(16)
Heidrun Friese
I: Perspectives and Concepts
Identity: Desire, Name and Difference
17(15)
Heidrun Friese
Identity and Selfhood as a Problematique
32(24)
Peter Wagner
Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis
56(21)
Jurgen Straub
Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance
77(32)
Barbara Henry
II: Representation and Translation
The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference
109(24)
Martin Fuchs
Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation
133(20)
Shingo Shimada
III: Women and Alterity
The Performance of Hysteria
153(17)
Elisabeth Bronfen
The `Jewess Pallas Athena': Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries
170(19)
Barbara Hahn
IV: Boundaries and Ethnicity
Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory
189(12)
Gerd Baumann
Historical Culture in (Post-) Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa
201(21)
Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink
Identity as Progress---The Longevity of Nationalism
222(19)
Christian Geulen
Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism
241(21)
Emanuel Sivan
Notes on Contributors 262(4)
Index 266

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