Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables viii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Note on Transliteration xi
6. Introduction ‘Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts’ Chances and Challenges 1
7. Chapter 1 Treason as Touchstone: Asymmetrical Relations between ‘Heathens’ and ‘Christians’ in Middle High German Epic Literature 41
8. Chapter 2 ‘Blond Flowing Hair’, ‘Tumid Lips’, ‘Rigid Posture’ and ‘Choleric Temperament’ Universal Aspirations and Racial Asymmetries in Linnaeus’s Descriptions of Homo Sapiens 56
9. Chapter 3 The Contribution of Asymmetrical Concepts to the Building of Spanish Liberal Discourse in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Methodological Reflections and Applications 85
10. Chapter 4 ‘Kultur’/‘Bildung’ vs ‘Civilization’ A Close Look at One Conceptual Asymmetry in the Early Nineteenth-Century Finnish Discourse 101
11. Chapter 5 Liberales vs Serviles: Symmetrization of Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts and Political Polarization in Spain and Portugal (1810–34) 124
12. Chapter 6 ‘Hellenes’ Revisited: Asymmetrical Concepts in the Language of the Greek Revolution 149
13. Chapter 7 ‘Civilization’ and ‘Barbarity’ in French Liberal Discourse during the Conquest and Colonization of Algeria 181
14. Chapter 8 ‘People’, ‘Plebs’ and the Changing Boundaries of the Political: Asymmetrical Conceptualizations in Spanish Liberalism from a Comparative European Perspective 205
15. Chapter 9 ‘Order’ vs ‘Chaos’ Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts and Ideological Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Poland 225
16. Chapter 10 Dutch McCarthyism? The Asymmetrical Opposition of ‘Democracy’ and ‘Communism’ in Holland between 1920 and 1990 258
17. Chapter 11 Asymmetrical Oppositions and Hierarchical Structures in Soviet Musical Criticism: The Case of the Essay Collection Za rubezhom (Abroad) (1953) 285
18. Chapter 12 ‘We the Basques’, and the ‘Other(s)’ Ethnic Asymmetries in Basque Nationalist Discourse 298
19. Conclusion: Beyond ‘Hellenes’ and ‘Barbarians’ 325
20. Index 335