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Informationen zum Autor Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her latest publications include Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Princeton, 2008); and Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (Princeton, 2009). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan! this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures! unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
