Contents -- Illustrations -- General Introduction -- Part One: The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity -- Introduction -- 1 Interiority, Identity, Knowledge: Unraveling the Cartesian Cogito -- 2 Subject, Self, Person: Marcel Mauss and the Limits of Poststructuralist Critique -- Part Two: Shadows of Fascism and Western Culture -- Introduction -- 3 Aesthetic Fascism and Modern Tragedy: D'Annunzio's Fedra -- 4 Of Musical Headings: Toscanini's and Furtwängler's Fifth Symphonies, 1939-54 -- 5 Holocaust Testimony and Post-Holocaust Fiction: Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm -- Part Three: Africa at the Passing of White Supremacy -- Introduction -- 6 Revisiting the Amistad Revolt in Sierra Leone -- 7 An Ethical Universal in the Postcolonial Novel - "A Certain Simple Respect"? -- 8 Western Classics in the South African State of Emergency: Gordimer's My Son's Story and Coetzee's Age of Iron -- Part Four: Eastern Europe After Communism -- Introduction -- 9 Creator versus Conspirator in the Postcommunist Revolutions -- 10 Yugoslavism and its Discontents: A Cultural Post-Mortem -- 11 Bosnia and the Ethical Limits of Cultural Relativism: Re-Auditing Lyotard -- 12 Cultural Co-ordinates of a Bulgarian Art-Hoax: "Drafts" by Virginia, A Tragedia dell'Arte -- Part Five: Far East/Far West -- Introduction -- 13 Cultural Hermeneutics and Orientalist Discourse: Loti's Self-Reflexive Japonisme -- 14 Western Agon/Eastern Ritual: Confrontations and Co-optations in Worldviews -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Topics -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Credits -- Contributors -- Editors.