著者名：

Grosrichard, Alain

出版元：

Verso

頁数：

xxvii,222p

刊行年：

1988

ISBN：

1859841228

Despotism -- Ottoman empie -- Public opinion -- East and Wes

This book is a survey of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire and the supposedly enigmatic structure of the despot's court - the seraglio - with its viziers, janissaries, mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs and countless wives. Drawing on the writings of travellers and philosophers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire, the author goes further than cataloguing their fascination with the vortex of capriciousness, violence, cruelty, lust, sexual perversion and slavery which they perceived in the seraglio. Using a Lacanian psychoanalytical framework, he describes the process as one in which these leading Enlightenment figures were constructing a fantastic Other to counterpose their project of a rationally based society. He seeks not to refute the misconceptions but rather explore the nature of the fantasy and what it can reveal about modern political thought and power relations more generally.

Introduction: The Subject Supposed to Enjoy / Mladen Dolar --
pt. I.A Genealogy of the Monster.
1. The Unnameable Threat.
2. The Concept of a Fantasy --
pt. II In Orient Desert ...
3. The Gaze and the Letter.
4. The Machine.
5. The Sword and the Book.
6. Mahomet Beside Himself --
pt. III The Shadow of the Seraglio.
7. The Anatomy of the Seraglio.
8. The Guardian of the Thresholds.
9. The Other Scene --
Wo es war.

No.

5711

価格：

2,310円