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 91
... Occident à l'Orient , de l'Orient à l'Occident ! O Dieu ! Servez vous de cette voie pour rapprocher les hommes les uns des autres ! 86 The whole world seemed crowded in to render homage to a scheme that God could only bless and make use ...
... Occident à l'Orient , de l'Orient à l'Occident ! O Dieu ! Servez vous de cette voie pour rapprocher les hommes les uns des autres ! 86 The whole world seemed crowded in to render homage to a scheme that God could only bless and make use ...
Page 155
... Occident " and " Orient " herds beneath very wide labels every possible variety of human plurality , reducing it in the process to one or two terminal , collective abstrac- tions . Marx is no exception . The collective Orient was easier ...
... Occident " and " Orient " herds beneath very wide labels every possible variety of human plurality , reducing it in the process to one or two terminal , collective abstrac- tions . Marx is no exception . The collective Orient was easier ...
Page 246
... Occident , but mainly by reasserting the technological , political , and cultural supremacy of the West . History , in such a union , is radically attentuated if not banished . Viewed as a current of development , as a narrative strand ...
... Occident , but mainly by reasserting the technological , political , and cultural supremacy of the West . History , in such a union , is radically attentuated if not banished . Viewed as a current of development , as a narrative strand ...
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