Marxism, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnology
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Overview
Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethnological imagination," a countercurrent of thought that contests Western modernity's existing social order through comparison to a non-Western other. Accordingly, Kurasawa critiques the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Michel Foucault. In the work of these thinkers, Kurasawa finds little justification for prevalent claims about social theory: the "postmodern" dismissal of the social-theoretical enterprise because of its ethnocentrism, or, on the other hand, the traditionalist revival of a canon stripped of its intercultural foundations. Rather, Kurasawa contends that the ethnological imagination can invigorate critical social theory by informing its response to a multicultural world -- a response that calls for a reconsideration of the identity of the West as well as of modernity itself.Book Details
Published
July 15, 2004
Publisher
Minneapolis ; University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780816642397