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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... European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate , both of which had a privileged communal significance for the journalist and his French readers . Americans will not feel quite the same about the ...
... European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate , both of which had a privileged communal significance for the journalist and his French readers . Americans will not feel quite the same about the ...
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... European material civilization and culture . Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions , vocabulary , scholarship , imagery , doctrines , even ...
... European material civilization and culture . Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions , vocabulary , scholarship , imagery , doctrines , even ...
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... European culture was able to manage — and even produce — the Orient politically , socio- logically , militarily , ideologically , scientifically , and imaginatively during the post - Enlightenment period . Moreover , so authoritative a ...
... European culture was able to manage — and even produce — the Orient politically , socio- logically , militarily , ideologically , scientifically , and imaginatively during the post - Enlightenment period . Moreover , so authoritative a ...
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... European use the list can be extended more or less indefinitely . My point is that Orientalism derives from a particular closeness experienced between Britain and France and the Orient , which until the early nineteenth century had ...
... European use the list can be extended more or less indefinitely . My point is that Orientalism derives from a particular closeness experienced between Britain and France and the Orient , which until the early nineteenth century had ...
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... European - Atlantic power over the Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient ( which is what , in its academic or scholarly form , it claims to be ) . Never- theless , what we must respect and try to grasp is the sheer ...
... European - Atlantic power over the Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient ( which is what , in its academic or scholarly form , it claims to be ) . Never- theless , what we must respect and try to grasp is the sheer ...
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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