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Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

By Marnia Lazreg

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781785336232
DOI
10.1515/9781785336232
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1007 kB (1031624 bytes)
Pages
292\292
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 05:02:12

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.

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