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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... Renan had a strong guild sense as a professional scholar , a professional Orientalist , in fact , a sense that put distance between himself and the masses . But more important , I think , is Renan's own conception of his role as an ...
... Renan had a strong guild sense as a professional scholar , a professional Orientalist , in fact , a sense that put distance between himself and the masses . But more important , I think , is Renan's own conception of his role as an ...
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... Renan's younger and very perspicacious contem- poraries , remarks that Renan was by no means a revolutionary in linguistics , archaeology , or exegesis , yet because he had the widest and the most precise learning of anyone in his ...
... Renan's younger and very perspicacious contem- poraries , remarks that Renan was by no means a revolutionary in linguistics , archaeology , or exegesis , yet because he had the widest and the most precise learning of anyone in his ...
Page 340
... Renan , Histoire générale , p . 156 . 57. Renan , Oeuvres complètes , 1 : 621–2 and passim . See H. W. Wardman , Ernest Renan : A Critical Biography ( London : Athlone Press , 1964 ) , p . 66 and passim , for a subtle description of Renan's ...
... Renan , Histoire générale , p . 156 . 57. Renan , Oeuvres complètes , 1 : 621–2 and passim . See H. W. Wardman , Ernest Renan : A Critical Biography ( London : Athlone Press , 1964 ) , p . 66 and passim , for a subtle description of Renan's ...
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