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

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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 ke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lazreg, Marnia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Temas:
East and West.
Philosophical anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
archival research.
contradictions.
cosmopolitan.
critical scholarship.
cultural difference.
cultures of the orient.
evolution.
france.
iran.
japan.
key scholars.
methodological effects.
non western cultures.
personal.
philosophical sources.
political.
radical conception.
the orient.
tunisia.
western rationality.
world of otherness.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (292 p.)
ISBN:9781785336232
9783110998214
Acceso:restricted access

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