{"product_id":"against-autonomy-timothy-j-reiss-9780804743495","title":"Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates \"cultural instruments,\" meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Examples are: notions of autonomy and the division of intellectual, social, cultural, and aesthetic practices; ideas of otherness (taking forms like \u003ci\u003eGemeinschaft\/Gesellschaft\u003c\/i\u003e, négritude, and afrocentrism); cultural and aesthetic forms such as tragedy, mimesis, self, mind\/body; certain modes of history and memory; and particular forms of discourse such as science, philosophy, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book explores the interlocking histories of cultural instruments from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their instrumental use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean. In the process, the author gives close readings of works by a wide range of authors: Balboa, Balbuena, Brathwaite, Calvino, Carpentier, Cervantes, Césaire, Depestre, Descartes, Eltit, Fanon, Freud, Gombrowicz, Harris, Kane, Kipling, Marshall, Walcott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMany other authors' works become part of the book's general argument about how cultures are made, how they figure both themselves and other cultures, and how they mutually interact (when they do) through productions of what the author calls the \"fictive imagination\"-what in the West is called \"art\" but in different cultures may take different names and serve different purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy J. Reiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804743495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804743495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 265","brand":"Timothy J. Reiss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48438014574847,"sku":"9780804743495","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa607848-1141-4b81-80b7-2a323c8cbc7c.jpg?v=1777168217","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-autonomy-timothy-j-reiss-9780804743495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}