The Japan Lectures

A Transnational Critical Encounter
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-30174-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten lectures, in a free and often informal style, Foucault explores, together with his Japanese interlocutors, what it would mean to take up, from outside Europe, the questions he was raising at the time about Revolution and Enlightenment in the traditions of European critical thought. In a series of wide-ranging discussions, on sexuality and its history, non-Christian forms of spirituality, new forms of political movements, and the role of knowledge, power, and truth in them, Foucault examines these questions in relationship to Asia. He had hoped these questions, very much debated at the time in postwar Japan, would be the start of new forms of translation, publication, and exchange. At the heart of the lectures is thus a search for the creation of a new sort of transnational collaboration, recasting the history of European colonialism and opening to a philosophy no longer simply Western, yet to come.

The Japan Lectures thus contribute to the new scholarship in Asian and in translation studies which has long since moved away from earlier "Area Studies"; at the same time, it participates in the new scholarship about Foucault’s own work and itinerary, following the publication of an extraordinary wealth of materials left unfinished or unpublished by his untimely death. In these ways, The Japan Lectures help us to better see the implications of Foucault’s work for philosophy in the 21st century.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foucault, Michel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments



Foucault in Asia: An Introduction



THE JAPAN LECTURES



1. Power and Knowledge

2. Sexuality and Politics

3. Disciplinary Society in Crisis

4. The Analytic Philosophy of Power

5. Sexuality and Power

6. The Theater of Philosophy

7. Methodology for a Knowledge of the World: How to Get Rid of Marxism

8. Michel Foucault and Zen: A Stay in a Zen Temple



Foucault in Japan: An Interview with Shiguéhiko Hasumi



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Foucault was one of the greatest philosophers and intellectuals of the 20th century.

John Rajchman, presenter and author of the introduction, is a philosopher and a professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has written extensively on Foucault, and more generally on postwar French philosophy.