Foucault's Orient : : The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan / / 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 Tunisi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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