Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface to the Series viii
5. Introduction 1
6. I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS
7. Chapter 1 Identity: Desire, Name and Difference 17
8. Chapter 2 Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique 32
9. Chapter 3 Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis 56
10. Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance 77
11. II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION
12. Chapter 5 The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference 109
13. Chapter 6 Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation 133
14. III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY
15. Chapter 7 The Performance of Hysteria 153
16. Chapter 8 The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries 170
17. IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY
18. Chapter 9 Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory 189
19. Chapter 10 Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa 201
20. Chapter 11 Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism 222
21. Chapter 12 Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism 241
22. Notes on Contributors 262
23. Index 266