Identities time, difference, and boundaries

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.

Acknowledgements / Heidrun Friese -- Preface to the Series / Jorn Rusen -- Introduction / Heidrun Friese -- I. Perspectives and Concepts -- Ch. 1. Identity: Desire, Name and Difference / Heidrun Friese -- Ch. 2. Identity and Selfhood as a Problematique / Peter Wagner -- Ch. 3. Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis / Jurgen Straub -- Ch. 4. Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance / Barbara Henry -- II. Representation and Translation -- Ch. 5. The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference / Martin Fuchs -- Ch. 6. Construction of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation / Shingo Shimada -- III. Women and Alterity -- Ch. 7. The Performance of Hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Ch. 8. The 'Jewess Pallas Athena': Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Barbara Hahn -- IV. Boundaries and Ethnicity --

Ch. 9. Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory / Gerd Baumann -- Ch. 10. Historical Culture in (Post-) Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink -- Ch. 11. Identity as Progress - The Longevity of Nationalism / Christian Geulen -- Ch. 12. Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan.