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Foucault's Orient : The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan / Marnia Lazreg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336225
  • 9781785336232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128 23
LOC classification:
  • CB251 .L364 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference -- Chapter 2 Madness and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 3 Foucault and Kant’s Cosmopolitan Anthropology -- Chapter 4 Foucault’s Negative Anthropology -- Chapter 5 Foucault’s Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution -- Chapter 6 The Heterotopia of Tunisia -- Chapter 7 The Enigma of Japan -- Chapter 8 Japan and Foucault’s Anthropological Bind -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultures.  Beyond tracing Foucault’s journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference -- Chapter 2 Madness and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 3 Foucault and Kant’s Cosmopolitan Anthropology -- Chapter 4 Foucault’s Negative Anthropology -- Chapter 5 Foucault’s Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution -- Chapter 6 The Heterotopia of Tunisia -- Chapter 7 The Enigma of Japan -- Chapter 8 Japan and Foucault’s Anthropological Bind -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

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Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultures.  Beyond tracing Foucault’s journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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