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Ethnological Imagination

Ethnological Imagination

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  • Release Date: 19/07/2004
  • Barcode: 9780816642403
  • Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
  • Label: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Subgenre: Social Sciences
Ethnological Imagination

Ethnological Imagination

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A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity

A significant intervention in contemporary debates about cross-cultural understanding

Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms “the ethnological 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. Accordingly, Kurasawa traces and critiques, through this prism of cultural alterity, the writings of some of the key architects of this way of thinking: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude LÉvi-Strauss, and Michel Foucault.

In the work of these thinkers, Kurasawa finds little justification for two of the most prevalent claims about social theory: the wholesale “postmodern” dismissal of the social-theoretical enterprise because of its supposedly intractable ethnocentrism and imperialism, or, on the other hand, the traditionalist and historicist revival of a canon stripped of its intercultural foundations. Rather, Kurasawa’s book defends a cultural perspective that eschews both the false universalism of “end of history” scenarios and the radical particularism embodied in the vision of “the clash of civilizations.” It contends that the ethnological imagination can invigorate critical social theory by informing its response to an increasingly multicultural world-a response that calls for a reconsideration of the identity and boundaries of the West as well of modernity itself.



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