Foucault's Orient
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Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1 — The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge of Difference
  5. Chapter 2 — Madness and Cultural Difference
  6. Chapter 3 — Foucault and Kant's Cosmopolitan Anthropology
  7. Chapter 4 — Foucault's Negative Anthropology
  8. Chapter 5 — Foucault's Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution
  9. Chapter 6 — The Heterotopia of Tunisia
  10. Chapter 7 — The Enigma of Japan
  11. Chapter 8 — Japan and Foucault's Anthropological Bind
  12. Epilogue
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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