Identities : time, difference, and boundaries / edited by Heidrun Friese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friese, Heidrun, 1958-

Assmann, Aleida.

Universität Bielefeld. Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung.

Series:

Making sense of history

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology).

Ethnicity.

Nationalism.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Contents:

Identity : desire, name, and difference / Heidrun Friese

Identity and selfhood as a problématique / Peter Wagner

Personal and collective identity : a conceptual analysis / Jurg̈en Straub

Identities of the West : reason, myths, limits of tolerance / Barbara Henry

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 : dominant v. demotic discourses of culture and the negotiation of historical memory / Gerd Baumann

Historical culture in (post-)colonial context : the genesis of national identification figures in francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

Identity as progress : the longevity of nationalism / Christian Geulen

Culture and history in comparative fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan.

Notes:

Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universität Bielefeld.

Based in part on Identitäten, ed. by Aleida Assmann and Heidrun Friese. 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1571814744

1571815074

OCLC:

47716418