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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... speak for the civilized world , the West , and the relatively small corps of colonial officials in Egypt . If he does not speak directly for the Orientals , it is because they after all speak another language ; yet he knows how they ...
... speak for the civilized world , the West , and the relatively small corps of colonial officials in Egypt . If he does not speak directly for the Orientals , it is because they after all speak another language ; yet he knows how they ...
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... speak of the Orient as belonging to another world , strictly speaking . There was only " our " world , " one " world bound together because the Suez Canal had frustrated those last provincials who still be- lieved in the difference ...
... speak of the Orient as belonging to another world , strictly speaking . There was only " our " world , " one " world bound together because the Suez Canal had frustrated those last provincials who still be- lieved in the difference ...
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... ( speaking or articulating ) definitively to man the word [ logos ? ] of things . " 42 Science gives speech to things ... speak , giving them circumstantial value , and a precise place in a rule - governed order of regularity . In its ...
... ( speaking or articulating ) definitively to man the word [ logos ? ] of things . " 42 Science gives speech to things ... speak , giving them circumstantial value , and a precise place in a rule - governed order of regularity . In its ...
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