The Exotic Effect: Foucault and the Question of Cultural Alterity
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...Similarly observed in constructing otherness depicted in theories that explain West–East relations, the West’s urge to construct images of the East (Said, 1979) is encountering resistance (Kurasawa, 1999; Shah, 2010)....
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...These findings cause us to revisit the discourses regarding identity construction and otherness (Bohrer, 2006; Kurasawa, 1999; Nochlin, 1989; Said, 1979) in early modern times, which mainly rest on domination, resistance, conflict resolution, and distancing one from the other....
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...…rhyme, in retrospect, with Buddhism, so too was Foucault interested in Zen and Shiite Islam, as alternatives to the rational discursive regimes that have shaped contemporary western subjectivities, the worldly limitations of which Foucault, in part, laments (Kurasawa, 1999; see also Magee, 1997)....
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...Much as Schopenhauer found his own philosophy to rhyme, in retrospect, with Buddhism, so too was Foucault interested in Zen and Shiite Islam, as alternatives to the rational discursive regimes that have shaped contemporary western subjectivities, the worldly limitations of which Foucault, in part, laments (Kurasawa, 1999; see also Magee, 1997)....
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...This is certainly the prevailing impression that Foucault engenders; one which he later modified (Kurasawa, 1999: 159)....
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...…Fuyuki Kurasawa has explored ways in which the binaries of ‘reason/madness, truth/falsehood, repression/freedom, normality/pathology etc.’ (Kurasawa, 1999: 148) that are intrinsic to Foucault’s paradigm are premised on Western/Eastern, Occidential/Orientalist assumptions that are less…...
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