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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... West " : to channel thought into a West or an East compartment . Because this tendency is right at the center of Orientalist theory , practice , and values found in the West , the sense of Western power over the Orient is taken for ...
... West " : to channel thought into a West or an East compartment . Because this tendency is right at the center of Orientalist theory , practice , and values found in the West , the sense of Western power over the Orient is taken for ...
Page 204
... West were there to learn from and to gape at an advanced culture ; the purposes of the Western travelers in the Orient were , as we have seen , of quite a different order . In addition , it has been estimated that around 60,000 books ...
... West were there to learn from and to gape at an advanced culture ; the purposes of the Western travelers in the Orient were , as we have seen , of quite a different order . In addition , it has been estimated that around 60,000 books ...
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... Western ethnocentricity . His earlier solicitation of Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur notwith- standing , Gibb's call for humanistic interinanimation between East and West reflects the changed political and cultural realities of the ...
... Western ethnocentricity . His earlier solicitation of Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur notwith- standing , Gibb's call for humanistic interinanimation between East and West reflects the changed political and cultural realities of the ...
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