Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy

Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy: Quest for a New Paradigm?
Contents
Introduction: Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy: Quest for a New Paradigm?
SECTION I. The Hyphenation of Literature: A Genealogy
	The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation?
SECTION II. Decomposing Nations, Establishing Contact Zones: Toward a New Idea of Literature
	‘Back’ to the West. Homecoming and Alterity around 1830
	“Humbly Report”? Svejk’s Voices from Exile
	With Other Eyes or the Eyes of Others? A Scandinavian Case
	The National Concept of Literature and Minority Group’s Identities in Latin America
SECTION III. The Spectral Border: ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ Identities
	National and European Identities among Political Elites and Population in European Countries
	Do ‘Minor Literatures’ Still Exist? The Fortunes of a Concept in the Changing Frameworks of Literary History
	After the BridgeThe Bosnian War as a European Trauma in the Work of Emir Suljagić and Aleksandar Hemon
SECTION IV. The Politics of the Improper: Community as a Limit-Experience
	The Literary-Political Beyond Nation, State, Nation-State. Critical Unhingings in the Thought of Jan Patočka and Hannah Arebdt
	Heteroessences: Community, Demonstratives and Interpretation in Agamben’s Philosophy of Language
	What about the Politics of Deconstruction?
Notes on Contributors