OrientalismA groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Renan's Philological Laboratory” by Edward W. Said, in Art, Politics, and Will: Essays in Honor of Lionel Trilling, edited by Quentin Anderson et al. Copyright © 1977 by Basic Books, Inc., The Bodley Head and McIntosh & Otis, Inc ...
... Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory 123 Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination 149 Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French 166 Chapter 3 Orientalism Now Latent and ...
... Renan in the late 1840s until the present in the United States must be something more formidable than a mere collection of lies. Orientalism, therefore, is not an airy European fantasy about the Orient, but a created body of theory and ...
... Renan's and Gobineau's racial ideas came out of the same impulse, as did a great many Victorian pornographic novels (see the analysis by Steven Marcus of “The Lustful Turk”). And yet, one must repeatedly ask oneself whether what matters ...
... Renan is not the (to him) indisputable truth that Occidentals are superior to Orientals, but the profoundly worked over and modulated evidence of his detailed work within the very wide space opened up by that truth. One need only ...
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 |
Orientalism Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |