Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean |
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Author:
| Cassano, Franco |
Edited and Translated by:
| Bouchard, Norma Ferme, Valerio |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-3365-6 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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In this engaging and provocative book, which ranges effortlessly between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, Cassano offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths. Cassano's rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the North-South relationship:...
More DescriptionIn this engaging and provocative book, which ranges effortlessly between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, Cassano offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths.
Cassano's rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the North-South relationship: "not to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South." In this work, the South is no longer a belated, imperfect, incomplete, and not-yet North but the space of a differential, autonomous identity to be recovered and rediscovered. Thus, Southern Thought not only exemplifies a brilliant critique of Occidentalism but represents a valiant attempt to restore agency and dignity to the heritage and legacies of Southern
civilizations and cultures. Four additional essays supplement this English translation of the original Italian book.