The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity

By Victor Li

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487526164
• ISBN13: 9781487526160
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher