Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts

Markus Winkler is Professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Marilena Laskaridis Chair) and Associate Professor in Film and Comparative Literature at Leiden University. Josephina Bierl works at the University of Lausanne as a research and teaching assistant in German Literature. Guillaume Broillet works at the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a research assistant within the team in charge of publishing the “Nietzsche-Kommentar” of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, and also as a research and teaching assistant in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva. Jens Herlth is a Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Laura Lonsdale is Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of The Queen’s College. Christian Moser is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. Stefan Niklas is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Julian Reidy works as a lecturer at the University of Bern and as a German teacher in a gymnasium in Bern. Melanie Rohner is Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bern. Neil Stewart is a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

• Early Twentieth Century until the End of World War II.- From World War II to the Present.- Afterword.