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The book traces questions raised by Foucault’s use of Borges’s Chinese encyclopedia and develops related arguments on difference, madness, cosmopolitan anthropology, and negative anthropology. It examines heterotopia in Tunisia and the “enigma of Japan,” linking Japan to Foucault’s anthropological challenges, with supporting bibliography and index.","Foucault’s Orient  \nFOUCAULT’S ORIENT  \nThe Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan  \nK  \nMarnia Lazreg  \nberghahn  \nN E W Y O R K • O X F O R D [www.berghahnbooks.com](www.berghahnbooks.com)  \nPublished in 2017 by  \nBerghahn Books  \n[www.berghahnbooks.com](www.berghahnbooks.com)  \n© 2017 Marnia Lazreg  \nAll rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nNames: Lazreg, Marnia, author.  \nTitle: Foucault’s Orient : the conundrum of cultural difference, from Tunisia to Japan / Marnia Lazreg.  \nDescription: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2017015944 (print) | LCCN 2017037524 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785336232 (e-book) | ISBN 9781785336225 (hardback : alk. paper)  \nSubjects: LCSH: East and West. | Foucault, Michel, 1926–1984. | Philosophical anthropology.  \nClassification: LCC CB251 (ebook) | LCC CB251 .L364 2017 (print) | DDC 128—dc23  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015944](https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015944)  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-1-78533-622-5 (hardback)  \nISBN 978-1-78533-623-2 (ebook)  \nTo the memory of my parents For Ramsi andReda  \nContents  \nK  \nAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1  \nChapter 1. The Chinese Encyclopedia and the Challenge  \nof Difference 13  \nChapter 2. Madness and Cultural Difference 45  \nChapter 3. Foucault and Kant’s Cosmopolitan Anthropology 62  \nChapter 4. Foucault’s Negative Anthropology 97  \nChapter 5. Foucault’s Anthropology of the Iranian Revolution 122  \nChapter 6. The Heterotopia of Tunisia 159  \nChapter 7. The Enigma of Japan 192  \nChapter 8. Japan and Foucault’s Anthropological Bind 226  \nEpilogue 245  \nBibliography 255  \nIndex 274  \nAcknowledgments  \nK  \nThis book started in 2009 with a question that lingered in my mind each time I taught a course on Foucault at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York: why did he start The Order of Things with Borges’s Chinese encyclopedia, and not some other equally provocative quotation? Soon I found myself retracing his intellectual journey prior to The Order of Things. 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