Beyond "Hellenes" and "Barbarians": Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse: 8 (European Conceptual History, 8)

 
9781800736795: Beyond "Hellenes" and "Barbarians": Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse: 8 (European Conceptual History, 8)
ISBN 10: 1800736797 ISBN 13: 9781800736795
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Forty years ago, German historian Reinhart Koselleck coined the notion of "asymmetrical concepts," pointing at the asymmetry between standard self-ascriptions, such as 'Hellenes' or 'Christians,' and pejorative otherizing-ascriptions, 'Barbarians' or 'Pagans,' as a powerful weapon of cultural and political domination. Advancing and refining Koselleck's approach, Beyond "Hellenes" and "Barbarians", explores the use of significant conceptual asymmetries such 'civilization' vs. 'barbarity,' 'liberalism' vs. 'servility,' 'order' vs. 'chaos', or even 'masters' vs. 'slaves,' in political, scientific and fictional discourses from Greek to Dutch, Finnish to German, British to Portuguese, and many other societies from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using an interdisciplinary set of approaches, scholars across political science, literary criticism, and the history of science bolster and extend our understanding of this ever-growing conceptual history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kirill Postoutenko is Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany, and Adjunct Associate Professor (Docent) of Russian literature and culture at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author and editor of eight books and eighty articles devoted to the history of Russian poetry and literary criticism, history of media and communication in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, systems theory, conversation analysis, and social history of identity.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1800736797
ISBN 13 
9781800736795
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Anzahl der Seiten
360
Herausgeber
Postoutenko Kirill
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