Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan, Paperback - 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 t...

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Like Foucault's earlier works, The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social conc...

Traces the history of religion and examines the explosion in religious violence in light of ongoing cultural transformation.

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