Heidrun Friese has published widely on social theory and time, the anthropology of the sciences, and social imagination. She is currently at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence.

• PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTSChapter 1. Identity: Desire, Name and DifferenceHeidrun FrieseChapter 2. Identity and Selfhood as a ProblématiquePeter WagnerChapter 3. Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual AnalysisJürgen StraubChapter 4. Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of ToleranceBarbara HenryPART II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATIONChapter 5. The Praxis of Cognition and Representation of DifferenceMartin FuchsChapter 6. Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of TranslationShingo ShimadaPART III: WOMEN AND ALTERITYChapter 7. The Performance of HysteriaElisabeth BronfenChapter 8. The 'Jewess Pallas Athena': Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th CenturiesPART IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITYChapter 9. Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical MemoryGerd BaumannChapter 10. Historical Culture in (Post-) Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western AfricaHans-Jürgen LüsebrinkChapter 11. Identity as Progress – The Longevity of NationalismChristian GeulenChapter 12. Culture and History in Comparative FundamentalismEmanuel SivanNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex