Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-622-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazreg, Marnia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lazreg, Marnia
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).