Identity : desire, name, and difference / Heidrun Friese -- Identity and selfhood as a problématique / Peter Wagner -- Personal and collective identity / Jurg̈en Straub -- Identities of the West : reason, myths, limits of tolerance / Barbara Henry -- Remembering the other : knowledge and recognition in the exploration of Central Africa / Johannes Fabian -- The praxis of cognition and the representation of difference / Martin Fuchs -- Constructions of cultural identity and problems of translation / Shingo Shimada -- The performance of hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The "Jewess Pallas Athena" : horizons of selfconception in the 19th and 20th centuries / Barbara Hahn -- Collective identity as a dual discursive construction / Gerd Baumann -- Historical culture in (post-)colonial context : the genesis of national identification figures in francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- Identity as progress : the longevity of nationalism / Christian Geulen -- Culture and history in comparative fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan.