Against Autonomy - Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange

About the author

Timothy J. Reiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author, most recently, of Knowledge, Discovery, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism.

Summary

This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures.

Additional text

" . . . a courageous book like this, carefuly articulated and aresting on the absolute mastery of over three hundred primary sources, belongs on the shelves of everyone with a serious interest in the material covered in this journal."

Product details

• Authors: Timothy J Reiss, Timothy J. Reiss, Reiss Timothy
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2002
• EAN: 9780804743501
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4350-1
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 735 g
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present Series; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology