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 55
... less important than what poetically it is endowed with , which is usually a quality with an imaginative or figurative value we can name and feel : thus a house may be haunted , or homelike , or prisonlike , or magical . So space ...
... less important than what poetically it is endowed with , which is usually a quality with an imaginative or figurative value we can name and feel : thus a house may be haunted , or homelike , or prisonlike , or magical . So space ...
Page 115
... less than Schlegel , Wordsworth , and Chateaubriand , Auguste Comte - like Bouvard - was the adherent and proponent of a secular post - Enlightenment myth whose out- lines are unmistakably Christian . In regularly allowing Bouvard and ...
... less than Schlegel , Wordsworth , and Chateaubriand , Auguste Comte - like Bouvard - was the adherent and proponent of a secular post - Enlightenment myth whose out- lines are unmistakably Christian . In regularly allowing Bouvard and ...
Page 139
... less intended to shock than passively to delight . For Renan was succeeding to the chair of Hebrew , and his lecture was on the contribution of the Semitic peoples to the history of civilization . What more subtle affront could there be ...
... less intended to shock than passively to delight . For Renan was succeeding to the chair of Hebrew , and his lecture was on the contribution of the Semitic peoples to the history of civilization . What more subtle affront could there be ...
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