Format:
Online-Ressource (lv, 212 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780823233649
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9780823233656
Content:
In this engaging and provocative book, which ranges effortlessly between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, Cassano offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths. CassanoGs rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the NorthGSouth relationship: Gnot to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South.G In this work, the South is no longer a belated, imperfect, incomplete, and not-yet North but the space of a differential, autonomous identity to be recovered and rediscovered. Thus, Southern Thought not only exemplifies a brilliant critique of Occidentalism but represents a valiant attempt to restore agency and dignity to the heritage and legacies of Southern civilizations and cultures. Four additional essays supplement this English translation of the original Italian book.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Prologue: Parallels and Meridians -- Introduction: For a Thought from the South -- Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 1 Going Slow -- CHAPTER 2 Of Land and Sea -- Homo currens -- CHAPTER 3 Thinking the Frontier -- CHAPTER 4 The Fundamentalism of the Rat Race -- The Friction of Thought -- CHAPTER 5 Albert Camus: The Need for Southern Thought -- CHAPTER 6 Pier Paolo Pasolini: Life as Oxymoron -- Other Essays on the Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 7 Europe and Southern Thought -- CHAPTER 8 Cardinal Knowledge -- CHAPTER 9 Against All Fundamentalisms: The New Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 10 Thinking the Mediterranean -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index
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pt. 1. Mediterranean -- pt. 2. Homo currens -- pt. 3. The friction of thought -- pt. 4. Other essays on the Mediterranean.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823233649
Additional Edition:
Print version Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
Language:
English
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