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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Page xxiv
... important to me in my work . As a humanist whose field is literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ago in the field of comparative literature , whose leading ideas go back to Germany in the late eighteenth and early ...
... important to me in my work . As a humanist whose field is literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ago in the field of comparative literature , whose leading ideas go back to Germany in the late eighteenth and early ...
Page xxv
... important facet of the interpreter's philological mission . All this was obviously undermined and destroyed in Germany by National Socialism . After the war , Auerbach notes mournfully , the standardization of ideas , and greater and ...
... important facet of the interpreter's philological mission . All this was obviously undermined and destroyed in Germany by National Socialism . After the war , Auerbach notes mournfully , the standardization of ideas , and greater and ...
Page xxix
... important , humanism is the only , and I would go so far as to say , the final resistance we have against the inhu- man practices and injustices that disfigure human history . We are today abetted by the enormously encouraging ...
... important , humanism is the only , and I would go so far as to say , the final resistance we have against the inhu- man practices and injustices that disfigure human history . We are today abetted by the enormously encouraging ...
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... important , that one belongs to a part of the earth with a definite history of in- volvement in the Orient almost since the time of Homer . Put in this way , these political actualities are still too undefined and general to be really ...
... important , that one belongs to a part of the earth with a definite history of in- volvement in the Orient almost since the time of Homer . Put in this way , these political actualities are still too undefined and general to be really ...
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... important , outlining something in the nature of an intellectual order within that group of texts without at the same time following a mindlessly chrono- logical order . My starting point therefore has been the British , French , and ...
... important , outlining something in the nature of an intellectual order within that group of texts without at the same time following a mindlessly chrono- logical order . My starting point therefore has been the British , French , 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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