Ethnological Imagination A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity |
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| Author:
| Kurasawa, Fuyuki |
| Series title: | Contradictions of Modernity Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4240-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethological imagination," a substantial countercurrent of thought that interprets and contests Western modernity's existing social order through comparison and contrast to a non-Western other. Kurasawa traces and critiques the writings of some of the key architects of this way of thinking: Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Michel Foucault.
Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethological imagination," a substantial countercurrent of thought that interprets and contests Western modernity's existing social order through comparison and contrast to a non-Western other. Kurasawa traces and critiques the writings of some of the key architects of this way of thinking: Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Michel Foucault.