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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... linguistic , and ethnic unit called the Orient . Fields , of course , are made . They acquire coherence and integrity in time because scholars devote themselves in different ways to what seems to be a com- monly agreed - upon subject ...
... linguistic , and ethnic unit called the Orient . Fields , of course , are made . They acquire coherence and integrity in time because scholars devote themselves in different ways to what seems to be a com- monly agreed - upon subject ...
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... linguists out of a purely hypothetical proto - Semitic or proto - Indo - European , are similarly products of the laboratory and of the library . The text of a linguistic or an anatomical work bears the same general relation to nature ...
... linguists out of a purely hypothetical proto - Semitic or proto - Indo - European , are similarly products of the laboratory and of the library . The text of a linguistic or an anatomical work bears the same general relation to nature ...
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... linguistics does not.49 Therefore the philologist must make a given linguistic fact correspond in some way to a historical period : hence the possibility of a classification . Yet , as Renan was often to say , linguistic temporality and ...
... linguistics does not.49 Therefore the philologist must make a given linguistic fact correspond in some way to a historical period : hence the possibility of a classification . Yet , as Renan was often to say , linguistic temporality and ...
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