About the Authors

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 19^th and Early 20^th 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