Gibt es eine kulturelle Identität?

In reaction to François Jullien’s essay ‘There is no cultural idproduct’, this volume discusses questions and problems of cultural idproduct from the perspectives of different disciplines in times of newly emerging lines of conflict between open and closed societies, hyperculture and cultural essentialism as well as cosmopolitanism and communitarianism in late modernity. On the one hand, the book emphasises theoretical interpretations of the concept from the perspectives of political science, sociology and philosophy (of law), which liberate it from its static and essentialist substance in order to include praxeological, dynamic, transformative and collective as well as individual aspects. On the other hand, it brings empirical constructions and debates into focus—from idproduct narratives, representations and performances, via their use as a political slogan in discourses, to the question of the compatibility of cultural identities with democracy in principle.