{"product_id":"the-japan-lectures-a-transnational-critical-encounter-9781032301747","title":"The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Japan Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e 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Foucault's own work and itinerary, following the publication of an extraordinary wealth of materials left unfinished or unpublished by his untimely death.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, \u003cem\u003eThe Japan Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e help us to better see the implications of Foucault's work for philosophy in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the greatest philosophers and intellectuals of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Rajchman\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509745324306,"sku":"9781032301747","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0fc564ea-e27c-479d-aeac-ee2f9ef7a45e.jpg?v=1730906429","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-japan-lectures-a-transnational-critical-encounter-9781032301747","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}