1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796532103321

Autore

Lazreg Marnia

Titolo

Foucault's Orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan / / Marnia Lazreg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

ISBN

1-78920-817-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Classificazione

CI 5717

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

East and West

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference -- Madness and Cultural Difference -- Foucault and Kant's Cosmopolitan Anthropology -- Foucault's Negative Anthropology -- Foucault's Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution -- The Heterotopia of Tunisia -- The Enigma of Japan -- Japan and Foucault's Anthropological Bind -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910147176603321

Titolo

Spacesofidentity.net

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta [Canada], : Canadian Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2001-

Soggetti

Identity (Psychology) - Europe, Central

Identity (Psychology) - Europe, Eastern

Identité (Psychologie) - Europe centrale

Identité (Psychologie) - Europe de l'Est

Identity (Psychology)

Text

Periodicals.

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

A multidisciplinary international web-journal dedicated to issues of tradition, cultural boundaries and identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe.