TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lazreg,Marnia
TI  - Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan 
SN  - 9781785336225
AV  - CB251 .L364 2017
U1  - 128 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - East and West
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - archival research
KW  - contradictions
KW  - cosmopolitan
KW  - critical scholarship
KW  - cultural difference
KW  - cultures of the orient
KW  - evolution
KW  - france
KW  - iran
KW  - japan
KW  - key scholars
KW  - methodological effects
KW  - non western cultures
KW  - personal
KW  - philosophical sources
KW  - political
KW  - radical conception
KW  - the orient
KW  - tunisia
KW  - western rationality
KW  - world of otherness
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336232?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785336232
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ER  -