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Timothy J. Reiss Against Autonomy (Hardback) Cultural Memory in the Present. Author: Timothy J. Reiss. Title: Against Autonomy. Format: Hardback. Language: English. Release Date: 01/10/2002. EAN: 9780804743495. ISBN-10: 0804743495. Further DetailsTitle: Against Autonomy Condition: New Subtitle: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange Author: Timothy J. Reiss Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0804743495 EAN: 9780804743495 ISBN: 9780804743495 Publisher: Stanford University Press Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Society & Culture Release Date: 01/10/2002 Description: This book investigates "cultural instruments," meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Examples are: notions of autonomy and the division of intellectual, social, cultural, and aesthetic practices; ideas of otherness (taking forms like Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft , négritude, and afrocentrism); cultural and aesthetic forms such as tragedy, mimesis, self, mind/body; certain modes of history and memory; and particular forms of discourse such as science, philosophy, and literature. The book explores the interlocking histories of cultural instruments from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their instrumental use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean. In the process, the author gives close readings of works by a wide range of authors: Balboa, Balbuena, Brathwaite, Calvino, Carpentier, Cervantes, Césaire, Depestre, Descartes, Eltit, Fanon, Freud, Gombrowicz, Harris, Kane, Kipling, Marshall, Walcott. Many other authors' works become part of the book's general argument about how cultures are made, how they figure both themselves and other cultures, and how they mutually interact (when they do) through productions of what the author calls the "fictive imagination"—what in the West is called "art" but in different cultures may take different names and serve different purposes. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Type: Anthropology Release Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
