Barbarism Revisited : New Perspectives on an Old Concept.

Intro -- Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Setting the Terms: Conceptual and Cultural Histories of Barbarism -- Barbarians: From the Ancient to the New World -- Towards a Cultural History of Barbarism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present -- II. Barbarian Configurations in Classic, Medieval, and Early Modern Settings -- Laughing (at the) Barbarians: On Barbarism and Humor in Homer and Herodotus -- On the Evil Side of Creation: Barbarians in Middle Dutch Texts -- Naked Indians, Trousered Gauls: Montaigne on Barbarism -- III. Barbarism and/in Enlightenment Thought, Aesthetics, and Literature -- The Conceptual History of Barbarism: What Can We Learn from Koselleck and Pocock? -- Sublime Barbarism?: Affinities between the Barbarian and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics -- 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 -- Liminal Barbarism: Renegotiations of an Ancient Concept in (Post-)Enlightenment Social Theory and Literature -- "The Seat of the Young, Loving Feelings, thus Delusionally, Barbarically -": Barbarism and the Revolutionary State in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea -- Trusting Barbarians?: Franz Grillparzer's The Golden Fleece and the Challenge to the Mythography of Empire -- V. Barbarism and/in Modernity -- Des künic Etzelen man: The Huns and their King in Fritz Lang's Classic Silent Film Die Nibelungen and in the Nibelungenlied -- Barbarians and Their Cult: On Walter Benjamin's Concept of New Barbarism -- 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.

The Limes Mexicanicus or the 'Barbarians at the Gate': The Depiction of 'Southern Invaders' in American Film of the Twenty-First Century -- Writing Designed Anxieties on Barbarism, Ornament, Taste, and Bio-Design -- Organizing Cultuur?Barbaar!: Some Problems of Creating Concepts Through Art -- VII. The Politics of Barbarism -- Ultimi Barbarorum: Eloquence and Subjectivity in Twenty-First-Century Social Movements -- Waiting for the Barbarians after 9/11: Functions of a Topos in Liminal Times -- The Politics of Barbarism -- The Contributors -- Index.

Barbarism revisited revisits well-known and obscure chapters in the genealogy of barbarism from Greek antiquity to the present. Through contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, it recasts the conceptual history of barbarism as a task for literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

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