Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts

This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the eighteenth century to the present and highlights its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of the concept's modern European and Western history and combines overviews with detailed analyses of representative works of literature, art, film, philosophy, and political and cultural theory.

Volume 2 broaches figurations of barbarism and mobilizations of the barbarian across diverse contexts, media, and fields from the early twentieth century to our present: from avant-garde manifestoes to contemporary multilingual literature and adaptations of the Medea myth, from anti-colonial to eco-socialist texts, from political philosophy and ethno-anthropology to contemporary pop culture, from Russian poetry to Western political rhetoric, from Europe to Latin America, from cinema to art biennials, and from (neo-)Marxists to the Alt-Right.

Studies on a keyword of the European tradition A European project on post-colonial studies Literature and cultural history for historians and literary scholars

Autorentext

Markus Winkler is Professor emeritus at the University of Geneva.

Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Marilena Laskaridis Chair) and Associate Professor in Film and Comparative Literature at Leiden University.

Josephina Bierl works at the University of Lausanne as a research and teaching assistant in German Literature.

Guillaume Broillet works at the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a research assistant within the team in charge of publishing the Nietzsche-Kommentar of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, and also as a research and teaching assistant in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva.

Jens Herlth is a Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Laura Lonsdale is Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of The Queen's College.

Christian Moser is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.

Stefan Niklas is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Julian Reidy works as a lecturer at the University of Bern and as a German teacher in a gymnasium in Bern.

Melanie Rohner is Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bern.

Neil Stewart is a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

Inhalt
Early Twentieth Century until the End of World War II.- From World War II to the Present.- Afterword.