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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... Middle East and Other Case Studies , proceedings of a seminar , edited by P. J. Vatikiotis . American Jewish Committee : Excerpts from " The Return of Islam " by Bernard Lewis , in Commentary , vol . 61 , no . 1 ( January 1976 ) ...
... Middle East and Other Case Studies , proceedings of a seminar , edited by P. J. Vatikiotis . American Jewish Committee : Excerpts from " The Return of Islam " by Bernard Lewis , in Commentary , vol . 61 , no . 1 ( January 1976 ) ...
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... Middle East , the Arabs , and Islam have continued to fuel enormous change , struggle , controversy and , as I write these lines , war . As I said many years ago , Orientalism is the product of circumstances that are funda- mentally ...
... Middle East , the Arabs , and Islam have continued to fuel enormous change , struggle , controversy and , as I write these lines , war . As I said many years ago , Orientalism is the product of circumstances that are funda- mentally ...
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... Middle East , the Arabs , and Islam in the United States has improved somewhat , but alas , it really hasn't . For all kinds of reasons , the situation in Europe seems to be considerably better . In the United States , the hardening of ...
... Middle East , the Arabs , and Islam in the United States has improved somewhat , but alas , it really hasn't . For all kinds of reasons , the situation in Europe seems to be considerably better . In the United States , the hardening of ...
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... Middle East and elsewhere for so long . Let me now speak about a different alternative model that has been extremely important to me in my work . As a humanist whose field is literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ...
... Middle East and elsewhere for so long . Let me now speak about a different alternative model that has been extremely important to me in my work . As a humanist whose field is literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ...
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... Middle East " expert " in support of mil- itary intervention against Iraq an Arab academic who , as a paid consultant to the mass media on a nightly basis , keeps repeating his hatred of his own people and the renunciation of his back ...
... Middle East " expert " in support of mil- itary intervention against Iraq an Arab academic who , as a paid consultant to the mass media on a nightly basis , keeps repeating his hatred of his own people and the renunciation of his back ...
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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