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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... discipline have almost disappeared . Instead of reading in the real sense of the word , our students today are often distracted by the fragmented knowledge available on the internet and in the mass media . Worse yet , education is ...
... discipline have almost disappeared . Instead of reading in the real sense of the word , our students today are often distracted by the fragmented knowledge available on the internet and in the mass media . Worse yet , education is ...
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... Discipline and Punish , to identify Orientalism . My contention is that without examining Orientalism as a discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline by which European culture was able to manage — and ...
... Discipline and Punish , to identify Orientalism . My contention is that without examining Orientalism as a discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline by which European culture was able to manage — and ...
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... discipline of a novel or a scholarly text as each is being written . Yet if we eliminate from the start any notion that " big " facts like imperial domination can be applied mechanically and deterministic- ally to such complex matters ...
... discipline of a novel or a scholarly text as each is being written . Yet if we eliminate from the start any notion that " big " facts like imperial domination can be applied mechanically and deterministic- ally to such complex matters ...
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... discipline than ever before . But what mattered to Europe was the expanded scope and the much greater refinement given its techniques for receiving the Orient . When around the turn of the eighteenth century the Orient definitively ...
... discipline than ever before . But what mattered to Europe was the expanded scope and the much greater refinement given its techniques for receiving the Orient . When around the turn of the eighteenth century the Orient definitively ...
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... discipline . Perhaps the most important task of all would be to undertake studies in contemporary alternatives to Orientalism , to ask how one can study other cultures and peoples from a libertarian , or a nonrepressive and ...
... discipline . Perhaps the most important task of all would be to undertake studies in contemporary alternatives to Orientalism , to ask how one can study other cultures and peoples from a libertarian , or a nonrepressive and ...
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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