Introduction: Reconfiguring the Humanities

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: Reconfiguring the Humanities 1
5. Part I: Transnational Interpolations of the Humanities
6. Transnational History versus International History: A Case of Revisionism ? 17
7. The Transnational Study of Culture: A Plea for Translation 29
8. Migrant, Nomad, Traveler – Towards a Transnational Art History 50
9. Art History and the Culture of the Image: A Manifesto for Global Art History 70
10. Part II: Revisions of Modernity with and against Globality
11. Globality and Modernity: Making Concepts Raise Research Questions 79
12. ‘African Renaissance’ – Between Pan-African Rhetoric and the Reality of National Identity Politics 96
13. Feeling Modern: Narratives of Slavery as Entangled Literary History 117
14. Theses on the Future of Language 135
15. Western Modernism at and beyond the Margins: František Kupka and Margaret Preston 141
16. Modern Work and Identity 154
17. Part III: Per/versions of Cultural Diversity: Including Exclusions
18. Global Pressures and Cultural Relativity: The Case of Media Anthropology 169
19. Long-Term Power Presentation Shifts: From Key Audio-Visual Narratives to an Update of Elias’s Theory on the Process of Civilization 188
20. Inner Language Spaces: Migration and Plurilingualism from a Psycholinguistic Perspective 211
21. Relational Diversity: Religious Pluralization and Politics of Cohesion 227
22. Manifesting Religion in Public: A Universal Human Right – An International Law – National Restrictions 242
23. Part IV: Peroration
24. Devolvement: From Modern Humanities towards Global Humanities 271
25. List of Illustrations 278
26. About the Authors 279
27. Index 285
28. Backmatter 291