Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-57181-474-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

"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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friese, Heidrun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS

Chapter 1. Identity: Desire, Name and Difference

Heidrun Friese

Chapter 2. Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique

Peter Wagner

Chapter 3. Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis

Jürgen Straub

Chapter 4. Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance

Barbara Henry

PART II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION

Chapter 5. The Praxis of Cognition and Representation of Difference

Martin Fuchs

Chapter 6. Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation

Shingo Shimada

PART III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY

Chapter 7. The Performance of Hysteria

Elisabeth Bronfen

Chapter 8. The 'Jewess Pallas Athena': Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries

PART 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

Chapter 10. Historical Culture in (Post-) Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

Chapter 11. Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism

Christian Geulen

Chapter 12. Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism

Emanuel Sivan

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Friese, Heidrun
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.

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.