Cultural politics and identity : the public space of recognition / edited by Barbara Weber ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weber, Barbara, 1976-

Series:

Politische Philosophie und anthropologische Studien ; Bd. 2.

Politische Philosophie und anthropologische Studien ; Band 2 = Political philosophy and anthropological studies ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Political aspects.

Cultural pluralism.

Group identity.

Cultural relations.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Public space of recognition

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Lit, 2011.

Contents:

Cultural politics and identity : the public space of recognition / Barbara Weber

Beyond understanding Rousseau and the beginning of the other / Karlfriedrich Herb

Lévinas and the problem of mutual recognition of the consumer society and its fears / Barbara Weber

A phenomenological perspective on the relationship between human rights and recognition / James R. Mensch

Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the struggle for Europe / Gary E. Aylesworth

Shared life / James Risser

A discussion of diachronic identity : the example of the painter Masuji Ono's political transformation in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel 'An artist of the floating world' / Eva Marsal & Takara Dobashi

The fate of hair and conversation : on moral identity and recognition in The man who wasn't there / Maria Sibylla Lotter

Jacques Derrida : "No, again, I won't be able to

" : of cruelty and responsibility / Petra Schweitzer

The futility of postcolonialism : national victimhood revisited / Benjamin Zachariah

Hygiene, sexual politics, and the gendered other : Chile at the beginning of the twentieth century / Celina Tuozzo

Anthropology, alterity and (com)motion : the quests for the other and the others' quests / Lisiane Koller Lecznieski

Confusion of voices : the crucial dilemmas of being a human being : Czeslaw Milosz's poetry and the search for personal identity / Andrew Wiercinski

Taking selves seriously / Susan T. Gardner

Educating for civil friendship / Jen Glaser

Understanding the reality interdisciplinary and arranging it socially and integratively / Maria Anna Bäuml-Roßnagl

Art and community : aesthetic practice as exposure to the other / Dorota Glowacka

"Weatherless dialogues," short stories / Tamara Ralis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783643901262

3643901267

OCLC:

793684652