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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Page xxi
... empires , as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruc- tion and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civ- ilizatrice . One specifically American contribution to the discourse of empire is the ...
... empires , as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruc- tion and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civ- ilizatrice . One specifically American contribution to the discourse of empire is the ...
Page xxii
... empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs . But what a shallow calculation of the imperial intrusion that is , how summarily it scants the immense distortion introduced by the empire into the lives of " lesser " peoples and ...
... empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs . But what a shallow calculation of the imperial intrusion that is , how summarily it scants the immense distortion introduced by the empire into the lives of " lesser " peoples and ...
Page 14
... empire : this is a subject not very well studied , but it will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John Stuart Mill , Arnold , Carlyle , Newman , Macaulay , Ruskin , George Eliot , and ...
... empire : this is a subject not very well studied , but it will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John Stuart Mill , Arnold , Carlyle , Newman , Macaulay , Ruskin , George Eliot , and ...
Page 15
... empires - British , French , American - in whose in- tellectual and imaginative territory the writing was produced . What interests me most as a scholar is not the gross political verity but the detail , as indeed what interests us in ...
... empires - British , French , American - in whose in- tellectual and imaginative territory the writing was produced . What interests me most as a scholar is not the gross political verity but the detail , as indeed what interests us in ...
Page 35
... empires have effectively brought them out of the wretchedness of their decline and turned them into rehabilitated residents of productive colonies . Egypt in particular was an excellent case in point , and Balfour was perfectly aware of ...
... empires have effectively brought them out of the wretchedness of their decline and turned them into rehabilitated residents of productive colonies . Egypt in particular was an excellent case in point , and Balfour was perfectly aware of ...
Contents
31 | |
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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