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Beyond "hellenes" and "barbarians" : asymmetrical concepts in European discourse by Nere Basabe; Wim de Jong; Kirill Kozlovski; Pablo Sánchez León; Monica Libell; Iñaki Iriarte López; Ana Isabel González Manso; Wiktor Marzec; Paul Paradies; Kirill Postoutenko; Heli Rantala; Alexandra Sfoini; María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía; Luis Fernández Torres is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Forty years ago, German historian Reinhart Koselleck coined the notion of ‘asymmetrical concepts’, pointing at the asymmetry between standard self-ascriptions, such as ‘Hellenes’ or ‘Christians’, and pejorative other-references (‘Barbarians’ or ‘Pagans’) as a powerful weapon of cultural and political domination. Advancing and refining Koselleck’s approach, __Beyond ‘Hellenes’ and ‘Barbarians’__ explores the use of significant conceptual asymmetries such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity’, ‘liberalism’ vs. ‘servility’, ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ or even ‘masters’ vs. ‘slaves’ in political, scientific and fictional discourses of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using an interdisciplinary set of approaches, the scholars in political history, cultural sociology, intellectual history and literary criticism bolster and extend our understanding of this ever-growing area of conceptual history.

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Author

Nere Basabe; Wim de Jong; Kirill Kozlovski; Pablo Sánchez León; Monica Libell; Iñaki Iriarte López; Ana Isabel González Manso; Wiktor Marzec; Paul Paradies; Kirill Postoutenko; Heli Rantala; Alexandra Sfoini; María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía; Luis Fernández Torres

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781800736801

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, History