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Barbarism Revisited - New Perspectives on an Old Concept (Paperback)
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Barbarism Revisited - New Perspectives on an Old Concept (Paperback)
Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 29
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The 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.
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