OrientalismA 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. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. |
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... American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United States of America by Vintage Books , a division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York , and in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited , Toronto . Originally published by ...
... American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United States of America by Vintage Books , a division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York , and in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited , Toronto . Originally published by ...
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... American Jewish Committee : Excerpts from " The Return of Islam " by Bernard Lewis , in Commentary , vol . 61 , no . 1 ( January 1976 ) . Reprinted from Commentary by permission . Copyright © 1976 by the American Jewish Committee ...
... American Jewish Committee : Excerpts from " The Return of Islam " by Bernard Lewis , in Commentary , vol . 61 , no . 1 ( January 1976 ) . Reprinted from Commentary by permission . Copyright © 1976 by the American Jewish Committee ...
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... American university and mine , Columbia , in particular - is still one of the few remaining places in the United States where reflection and study can take place in an almost - utopian fashion . I have never taught anything about the ...
... American university and mine , Columbia , in particular - is still one of the few remaining places in the United States where reflection and study can take place in an almost - utopian fashion . I have never taught anything about the ...
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... American power to construct there an ersatz model of free market " democ- racy , " without even a trace of doubt that such projects don't exist outside of Swift's Academy of Lagado . What I do argue also is that there is a difference ...
... American power to construct there an ersatz model of free market " democ- racy , " without even a trace of doubt that such projects don't exist outside of Swift's Academy of Lagado . What I do argue also is that there is a difference ...
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... American hawks think about such preposterous phenomena as the Arab mind and centuries - old Islamic decline that only American power could reverse . Today , bookstores in the United States are filled with shabby screeds bearing ...
... American hawks think about such preposterous phenomena as the Arab mind and centuries - old Islamic decline that only American power could reverse . Today , bookstores in the United States are filled with shabby screeds bearing ...
Contents
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Projects | 73 |
Crisis | 92 |
Redrawn Frontiers Redefined Issues Secularized | 113 |
Rational | 123 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages British and French | 166 |
Latent and Manifest Orientalism | 201 |
Orientalisms Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |
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