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 xv
... matter of being optimistic , but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that , in my opinion , frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation ...
... matter of being optimistic , but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that , in my opinion , frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation ...
Page xvi
... matter , my intellec- tual work generally have really been enabled by my life as a uni- versity academic . For all its often noted defects and problems , the American university and mine , Columbia , in particular - is still one of the ...
... matter , my intellec- tual work generally have really been enabled by my life as a uni- versity academic . For all its often noted defects and problems , the American university and mine , Columbia , in particular - is still one of the ...
Page xxi
... matters is how efficient and resourceful it sounds , and who might go for it , as it were . The worst aspect of this essentializing stuff is that human suffering in all its density and pain is spirited away . Memory and with it the ...
... matters is how efficient and resourceful it sounds , and who might go for it , as it were . The worst aspect of this essentializing stuff is that human suffering in all its density and pain is spirited away . Memory and with it the ...
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... matter . In a quite constant way , Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible positional superiority , which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative ...
... matter . In a quite constant way , Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible positional superiority , which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative ...
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... matters in Orientalism is the general group of ideas overriding the mass of material about which who could deny that they were shot through with doctrines of European superiority , various kinds of racism , imperialism , and the like ...
... matters in Orientalism is the general group of ideas overriding the mass of material about which who could deny that they were shot through with doctrines of European superiority , various kinds of racism , imperialism , and the like ...
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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