none 10.3167/9781785336225 Berghahn Books Berghahn Books 1748 160177734 3488097 20240425160614436 10.3167 2024-04-25T16:06:20Z 2024-04-25T16:06:17Z 0 Marnia Lazreg 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. 1 10 01 2017 10 01 2017 9781785336225 Berghahn Books Co-Access 10.2307/j.ctvw04c2r Co-Access 10.1515/9781785336232 10.3167/9781785336225 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LazregFoucault