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- Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
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- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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In 1996, with the publication of Southern Thought, Italian writer Franco Cassano became widely recognized as one of the most important voices in the contemporary Italian and European intellectual scene. 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. Cassano's rethinking of the South seeks nothing less than to reverse the North-South relationship: not to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South.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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-8
- Preface to the English-language Edition
- pp. xxvii-xxxi
- Prologue: Parallels and Meridians
- pp. xxxiii-lv
- Part I. Mediterranean
- pp. 7-66
- 1. Going Slow
- pp. 9-15
- 2. Of Land and Sea
- pp. 16-38
- Part II. Homo currens
- pp. 39-98
- 3. Thinking the Frontier
- pp. 41-51
- Part III. The Friction of Thought
- pp. 61-120
- 6. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Life as Oxymoron
- pp. 85-103
- Part IV. Other Essays on the Mediterranean
- pp. 105-164
- 7. Europe and Southern Thought
- pp. 107-115
- 8. Cardinal Knowledge
- pp. 116-124
- 10. Thinking the Mediterranean
- pp. 142-153
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 187-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823253647
Related ISBN(s)
9780823233649
MARC Record
OCLC
820126620
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No