Jerrold Seigel

Between Cultures

Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives

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Produktbeschreibung

Jerrold Seigel is Kenan Professor of History, Emeritus, at New York University. He is author of Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany Since 1750 and The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247619
• ISBN-10: 0812247612
• Artikelnr.: 42558692

Autorenporträt

Jerrold Seigel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Masquerade, Engagement, and Skepticism: Richard Burton
Chapter 2. Commitment and Loss: T. E. Lawrence
Chapter 3. The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon
Chapter 4. Independence and Ambivalence: Chinua Achebe and Two African
Contemporaries
Chapter 5. Reflection, Mystery, and Violence: Orhan Pamuk
Conclusion. Distance and Belonging
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments