Author: Reiss, Timothy J.
Title: Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange (Cultural Memory in the Present).
Description: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2002.Hardcover. No dustjacket. 560 pp. English text. Condition : very good, clean & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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. ISBN 9780804743495.

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY,