Foucault's orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan
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Foucault's orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan
Berghahn, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index
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Description
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.
Table of 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
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