Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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Page 62
... Western views of Islam , is his demonstration that it is finally Western ignorance which becomes more refined and complex , not some body of positive Western knowledge which increases in size and accuracy . For fictions have their own ...
... Western views of Islam , is his demonstration that it is finally Western ignorance which becomes more refined and complex , not some body of positive Western knowledge which increases in size and accuracy . For fictions have their own ...
Page 67
... Western Christianity ; it is also circum- scribed by a series of attitudes and judgments that send the Western mind , not first to Oriental sources for correction and verification , but rather to other Orientalist works . The ...
... Western Christianity ; it is also circum- scribed by a series of attitudes and judgments that send the Western mind , not first to Oriental sources for correction and verification , but rather to other Orientalist works . The ...
Page 257
... Western of Oriental literature need not be ( in its results ) what Brunetière had called " a national disgrace . " Rather , the East could be confronted as a sort of humanistic chal- lenge to the local confines of Western ...
... Western of Oriental literature need not be ( in its results ) what Brunetière had called " a national disgrace . " Rather , the East could be confronted as a sort of humanistic chal- lenge to the local confines of Western ...
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