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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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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