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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... modern Orientalism , certainly , but what distin- guishes modern Orientalism as a field , a group of ideas , a discourse , is the work of a later generation than theirs . If we use the Napoleonic expedition ( 1798-1801 ) as a sort of ...
... modern Orientalism , certainly , but what distin- guishes modern Orientalism as a field , a group of ideas , a discourse , is the work of a later generation than theirs . If we use the Napoleonic expedition ( 1798-1801 ) as a sort of ...
Page 123
... modern Orientalism , unlike the precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot , embodies a systematic discipline of accum- ulation . And far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature , it made Orientalism ...
... modern Orientalism , unlike the precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot , embodies a systematic discipline of accum- ulation . And far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature , it made Orientalism ...
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... Orientalist study , were readily understandable in view of their primitive origins : this was ( and to a certain extent still is ) the cornerstone of modern Orientalism . Renan had called the Semites an instance of arrested development ...
... Orientalist study , were readily understandable in view of their primitive origins : this was ( and to a certain extent still is ) the cornerstone of modern Orientalism . Renan had called the Semites an instance of arrested development ...
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