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The neo-primitivist turn : critical reflections on alterity, culture, and modernity / Victor Li.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Victor, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primitivism.
- Cultural relativism.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Critical theory.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Language.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Providing close readings of the ways in which the premodern or primitive is strategically deployed in contemporary critical writings, Li's interdisciplinary study is a timely and forceful intervention into current debates on the politics and ethics of otherness, the problems of cultural relativism, and the vicissitudes of modernity."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Alterity : Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Marianna Torgovnick
- Culture : Marshall Sahlins
- Modernity : Jürgen Habermas
- "Theorizing always needs a savage."
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-2616-4
- 1-281-99201-1
- 9786611992019
- 1-4426-8182-9
- OCLC:
- 645455470
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