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 17
... important ( they obviously have been ) but because one could discuss Europe's experience of the Near Orient , or of Islam , apart from its ex- perience of the Far Orient . Yet at certain moments of that general European history of ...
... important ( they obviously have been ) but because one could discuss Europe's experience of the Near Orient , or of Islam , apart from its ex- perience of the Far Orient . Yet at certain moments of that general European history of ...
Page 124
... important , Sacy always felt himself to be a man standing at the beginning of an important revisionist project . He was a self - aware inaugurator , and more to the point of our general thesis , he acted in his writing like a ...
... important , Sacy always felt himself to be a man standing at the beginning of an important revisionist project . He was a self - aware inaugurator , and more to the point of our general thesis , he acted in his writing like a ...
Page 259
... important for Auerbach - and this fact is of immediate relevance to Orientalism - was the humanistic tradition of involve- ment in a national culture or literature not one's own . Auerbach's example was Curtius , whose prodigious output ...
... important for Auerbach - and this fact is of immediate relevance to Orientalism - was the humanistic tradition of involve- ment in a national culture or literature not one's own . Auerbach's example was Curtius , whose prodigious output ...
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