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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... Essays Power , Politics , and Culture : Interviews with Edward W. Said Parallels and Paradoxes : Explorations in Music and Society ( with Daniel Barenboim ) Humanism and Democratic Criticism From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map On Late ...
... Essays Power , Politics , and Culture : Interviews with Edward W. Said Parallels and Paradoxes : Explorations in Music and Society ( with Daniel Barenboim ) Humanism and Democratic Criticism From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map On Late ...
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... 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 .: Excerpts from Flaubert in Egypt , translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller ...
... 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 .: Excerpts from Flaubert in Egypt , translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller ...
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... may be approaching the kind of standardization and homogeneity that Goethe's ideas were specifically formulated to prevent . In an essay published in 1951 entitled " Philolgie der Weltliteratur , " Erich xxiv ORIENTALISM.
... may be approaching the kind of standardization and homogeneity that Goethe's ideas were specifically formulated to prevent . In an essay published in 1951 entitled " Philolgie der Weltliteratur , " Erich xxiv ORIENTALISM.
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... essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and intuitively , using erudition and an excellent command of several ...
... essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and intuitively , using erudition and an excellent command of several ...
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... essay ( September 4 , 2002 ) , the region has slipped into an easy anti - Americanism that shows little understanding of what the United States is really like as a society . Because the governments are relatively powerless to affect ...
... essay ( September 4 , 2002 ) , the region has slipped into an easy anti - Americanism that shows little understanding of what the United States is really like as a society . Because the governments are relatively powerless to affect ...
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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