{"product_id":"barbarism-revisited-new-perspectives-on-an-old-concept-9789004307926","title":"Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Christian Moser and Maria Boletsi. Introduction I. Setting the Terms: Conceptual and Cultural Histories of Barbarism François Hartog. Barbarians: From the Ancient to the New World  Markus Winkler. Towards a Cultural History of Barbarism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present II. Barbarian Configurations in Classic, Medieval, and Early Modern Settings Daniel Wendt. Laughing (at the) Barbarians: On Barbarism and Humor in Homer and Herodotus   Clara Strijbosch. On the Evil Side of Creation: Barbarians in Middle Dutch Texts   Paul J. Smith. Naked Indians, Trousered Gauls: Montaigne on Barbarism   III. Barbarism and\/in Enlightenment Thought, Aesthetics, and Literature Peter Vogt. The Conceptual History of Barbarism: What Can We Learn from Koselleck and Pocock?   Reinhard M. Möller. Sublime Barbarism? Affinities between the Barbarian and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics  Madeleine Kasten. Staging the Barbarian: The Case of Voltaire’s Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophète  IV. Barbarism and the Constitution of Society: Literary Challenges to Evolutionary Models  Christian Moser. Liminal Barbarism: Renegotiations of an Ancient Concept in (Post-)Enlightenment Social Theory and Literature  Steven Howe. “The Seat of the Young, Loving Feelings, thus Delusionally, Barbarically – ”: Barbarism and the Revolutionary State in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea  Tim Albrecht. Trusting Barbarians? Franz Grillparzer’s The Golden Fleece and the Challenge to the Mythography of Empire  V. Barbarism and\/in Modernity Elke Brüggen and Franz-Josef Holznagel. Des künic Etzelen man – The Huns and their King in Fritz Lang’s Classic Silent Film Die Nibelungen and in the Nibelungenlied   Georgios Sagriotis. Barbarians and Their Cult: On Walter Benjamin’s Concept of New Barbarism  Anna-Maria Valerius. Barbarians betwixt and between: Figurations of the Barbarian in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Children of the Dead  VI. Barbarism in Contemporary Art and Popular Culture Heidi Denzel de Tirado. The Limes Mexicanicus or the ‘Barbarians at the Gate’: The Depiction of ‘Southern Invaders’ in American Film of the Twenty-First Century  Marjan Groot. Writing Designed Anxieties on Barbarism, Ornament, Taste, and Bio-Design  Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Looi van Kessel. Organizing Cultuur?Barbaar!: Some Problems of Creating Concepts through Art  VII. The Politics of Barbarism Nikos Patelis. Ultimi Barbarorum: Eloquence and Subjectivity in Twenty-First-Century Social Movements  Maria Boletsi. Waiting for the Barbarians after 9\/11: Functions of a Topos in Liminal Times  Terry Eagleton. The Politics of Barbarism  The Contributors Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210679476567,"sku":"9789004307926","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/barbarism-revisited-new-perspectives-on-an-old-concept-9789004307926","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}