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Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan - Couverture souple

Lazreg, Marnia

 
9781789208177: Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1789208173 ISBN 13 : 9781789208177
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her latest publications include Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Princeton, 2008); and Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (Princeton, 2009).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789208173
ISBN 13 
9781789208177
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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