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A Brief Genealogy of the West

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Abstract

A reprint of the Epilogue to the book, The Invention of the West, the author provides a genealogy of 20th-century usage of the term “the West” as a commonplace abbreviation, drawn, above all, from the convergence of British imperial discourses and Russian intellectual debates.

Abstract

A reprint of the Epilogue to the book, The Invention of the West, the author provides a genealogy of 20th-century usage of the term “the West” as a commonplace abbreviation, drawn, above all, from the convergence of British imperial discourses and Russian intellectual debates.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Before Westernness
  6. Competing with the East 9
  7. The Westernness of Philosophy
  8. ‘What is foreign becomes close and what is close becomes foreign’. Ethics and Geography in the Works of Meister Eckhart 43
  9. Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant 57
  10. On the Universal Notion of a Person 67
  11. The Westernness of Orientalism
  12. Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam Between East and West 87
  13. The “good Orientalists” 105
  14. The Westernness of Europe
  15. In the Center But Not in the Middle: T. G. Masaryk and Czech Geopolitical Discussions in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 137
  16. The Westernness of (The) Americans
  17. Televising the West: The Television Set of The Americans 161
  18. Russian Orthodoxy as Constitutive of Westernness in The Americans 179
  19. Western Reflections: The Mirrored Real and the Imaginary in The Americans 203
  20. After Westernness
  21. Reinventing the West: The Invention of the West 25 Years Later 221
  22. A Brief Genealogy of the West 231
  23. About the Authors 259
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110728422-013

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Before Westernness
  6. Competing with the East 9
  7. The Westernness of Philosophy
  8. ‘What is foreign becomes close and what is close becomes foreign’. Ethics and Geography in the Works of Meister Eckhart 43
  9. Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant 57
  10. On the Universal Notion of a Person 67
  11. The Westernness of Orientalism
  12. Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam Between East and West 87
  13. The “good Orientalists” 105
  14. The Westernness of Europe
  15. In the Center But Not in the Middle: T. G. Masaryk and Czech Geopolitical Discussions in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 137
  16. The Westernness of (The) Americans
  17. Televising the West: The Television Set of The Americans 161
  18. Russian Orthodoxy as Constitutive of Westernness in The Americans 179
  19. Western Reflections: The Mirrored Real and the Imaginary in The Americans 203
  20. After Westernness
  21. Reinventing the West: The Invention of the West 25 Years Later 221
  22. A Brief Genealogy of the West 231
  23. About the Authors 259
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