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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Lazreg, Marnia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336232; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336232?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marnia Lazreg.

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.