Synopses & Reviews
"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
Identity : desire, name, and difference / Heidrun Friese -- Identity and selfhood as a problâematique / Peter Wagner -- Personal and collective identity / Jurègen Straub -- Identities of the West : reason, myths, limits of tolerance / Barbara Henry -- Remembering the other : knowledge and recognition in the exploration of Central Africa / Johannes Fabian -- The praxis of cognition and the representation of difference / Martin Fuchs -- Constructions of cultural identity and problems of translation / Shingo Shimada -- The performance of hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The "Jewess Pallas Athena" : horizons of selfconception in the 19th and 20th centuries / Barbara Hahn -- Collective identity as a dual discursive construction / Gerd Baumann -- Historical culture in (post-)colonial context : the genesis of national identification figures in francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jèurgen Lèusebrink -- Identity as progress : the longevity of nationalism / Christian Geulen -- Culture and history in comparative fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan.