Identities
eBook - PDF

Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Identities
  2. Contents
  3. Preface to the Series
  4. Introduction
  5. I. PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS
  6. Chapter 1. Identity
  7. Chapter 2. Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique
  8. Chapter 3. Personal and Collective Identity
  9. Chapter 4. Identities of the West
  10. II. REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION
  11. Chapter 5. The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference
  12. Chapter 6. Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation
  13. III. WOMEN AND ALTERITY
  14. Chapter 7. The Performance of Hysteria
  15. Chapter 8. The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’
  16. IV. BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY
  17. Chapter 9. Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction
  18. Chapter 10. Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context
  19. Chapter 11. Identity as Progress
  20. Chapter 12. Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism
  21. Notes on Contributors
  22. Index