OrientalismNow reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. Very excitingâ¦his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive. John Leonard in The New York Times His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West's skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world.Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society âEdward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental erudition¦The breadth of reading [is] astonishing. Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.Observer Exciting¦for anyone interested in the history and power of ideas.J.H. Plumb in The New York Times Book Review Beautifully patterned and passionately argued. Nicholas Richardson in the New Statesman & Society |
Contents
The Scope of Orientalism | 29 |
Orientalist Structures and Restructures | 113 |
The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination | 149 |
Chapter 3 | 199 |
Afterword to the 1995 printing | 329 |
Notes | 355 |
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academic al-Hallaj American Arab Arab mind Asia Asiatic attitude authority Balfour Bernard Lewis Bouvard and Pécuchet Britain British called Chateaubriand Christian civilization classical colonial contemporary Cromer culture d'Herbelot Description de l'Égypte discipline discourse domination economic Egypt Egyptian Empire Europe European experience fact field Flaubert France French geographical Gibb Gibb's human ideas ideological imaginative imperial important India institutions intellectual interest Islam Islamic Orient knowledge Lane Lane's language Lawrence learned less Lesseps linguistic literature Massignon material matter means Middle East mind modern Orientalism Mohammed Muslim Napoleon narrative Nerval nineteenth century object Occident orientale Orientalist philology political race reality religion religious Renan represent revolution role Sacy Sacy's Sanskrit scholarly scholars scholarship scientific seemed Semitic Semitic languages sense Silvestre de Sacy social society speak style T. E. Lawrence texts things thought tion tradition vision Western whole writing Zionism