Barbarism Revisited

Maria Boletsi is Assistant Professor at the Film and Comparative Literature department of Leiden University (the Netherlands). Christian Moser is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.

Acknowledgments
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