This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the
eighteenth century to the present and highlights its foundational role in modern European and
Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of
the concept¿s modern European and Western history and combines overviews with detailed analyses
of representative works of literature art film philosophy and political and cultural
theory. Volume 2 broaches figurations of barbarism and mobilizations of the barbarian across
diverse contexts media and fields from the early twentieth century to our present: from
avant-garde manifestoes to contemporary multilingual literature and adaptations of the Medea
myth from anti-colonial to eco-socialist texts from political philosophy and
ethno-anthropology to contemporary pop culture from Russian poetry to Western political
rhetoric from Europe to Latin America from cinema to art biennials and from (neo-)Marxists
to the Alt-Right.
