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Abstract
"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.
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identities | 1 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Preface to the Series | 8 | ||
| Introduction | 15 | ||
| I. PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS | 29 | ||
| Chapter 1. Identity | 31 | ||
| Chapter 2. Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique | 46 | ||
| Chapter 3. Personal and Collective Identity | 70 | ||
| Chapter 4. Identities of the West | 91 | ||
| II. REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION | 121 | ||
| Chapter 5. The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference | 123 | ||
| Chapter 6. Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation | 147 | ||
| III. WOMEN AND ALTERITY | 165 | ||
| Chapter 7. The Performance of Hysteria | 167 | ||
| Chapter 8. The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ | 184 | ||
| IV. BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY | 201 | ||
| Chapter 9. Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction | 203 | ||
| Chapter 10. Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context | 215 | ||
| Chapter 11. Identity as Progress | 236 | ||
| Chapter 12. Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism | 255 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 276 | ||
| Index | 280 |