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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... linguistic , racial , and historical theses about mankind and the universe , for instances of economic and sociological theories of development , revolution , cultural person- ality , national or religious character . Additionally , the ...
... linguistic , racial , and historical theses about mankind and the universe , for instances of economic and sociological theories of development , revolution , cultural person- ality , national or religious character . Additionally , the ...
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... linguistics or anatomy , or any of the modern policy sciences ) , power cultural ( as with orthodoxies and canons of taste , texts , values ) , power moral ( as with ideas about what " we " do and what " they " cannot do or understand ...
... linguistics or anatomy , or any of the modern policy sciences ) , power cultural ( as with orthodoxies and canons of taste , texts , values ) , power moral ( as with ideas about what " we " do and what " they " cannot do or understand ...
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... linguistics . A similar claim of priority and subsequent pre - eminence can be made for William Jones and Edward William Lane . In the second place and here the failings of my study of Orientalism are amply made up for - there has been ...
... linguistics . A similar claim of priority and subsequent pre - eminence can be made for William Jones and Edward William Lane . In the second place and here the failings of my study of Orientalism are amply made up for - there has been ...
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... linguistic Orient was born , and with it , as Foucault has shown in The Order of Things , a whole web of related scientific interests . Similarly William Beckford , Byron , Goethe , and Hugo restructured the Orient by their art and made ...
... linguistic Orient was born , and with it , as Foucault has shown in The Order of Things , a whole web of related scientific interests . Similarly William Beckford , Byron , Goethe , and Hugo restructured the Orient by their art and made ...
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... linguistic investigations of Semitic in 1848 , for example , were couched in a style that drew heavily for its authority upon contemporary comparative grammar , comparative anatomy , and racial theory ; these lent his Orientalism ...
... linguistic investigations of Semitic in 1848 , for example , were couched in a style that drew heavily for its authority upon contemporary comparative grammar , comparative anatomy , and racial theory ; these lent his Orientalism ...
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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