Identities

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
"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.

Inhalt
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

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