Concepts of Europe, self-images and images of others, spatial and border constructions have been and are being formed, especially since the saddle period around 1800, through discourses of an 'Occident'. Occidental discourses can be described as discourse complexes that can be used in a variety of ways, that can be modeled and adapted, and as a fabric of memory discourses that are sometimes more nationalistic, sometimes more religious, sometimes more universalistic, are more or less strongly oriented towards border construction and are used more or less specifically politically. The interdisciplinary volume is based on the thesis that occidental discourses are essentially constructed through the use of memory stocks, through a plurality of interwoven memory narratives. The contributions by historians, history didactics and literary scholars from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland focus on intellectual discourses and their mediation in public space, literature and art.