Foucault's Orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan /

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Foucault lived for two years in Tunisia and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the Orient and the Occident constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using interviews with scholars familiar with him from...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lazreg, Marnia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984
East and West.
Philosophical anthropology.
Anthropologie philosophique.
philosophical anthropology.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
East and West
Philosophical anthropology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference
  • Madness and Cultural Difference
  • Foucault and Kant's Cosmopolitan Anthropology
  • Foucault's Negative Anthropology
  • Foucault's Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution
  • The Heterotopia of Tunisia
  • The Enigma of Japan
  • Japan and Foucault's Anthropological Bind
  • Epilogue.

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