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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... nineteenth centuries . Before that I must mention the supremely creative contribution of Giambattista Vico , the ... century Romance philologists Erich Auerback , Leo Spitzer , and Ernst Robert Curtius . To young people of the ...
... nineteenth centuries . Before that I must mention the supremely creative contribution of Giambattista Vico , the ... century Romance philologists Erich Auerback , Leo Spitzer , and Ernst Robert Curtius . To young people of the ...
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... nineteenth - century and early- twentieth - century European colonialism . Nevertheless books are written and congresses held with " the Orient " as their main focus , with the Orientalist in his new or old guise as their main authority ...
... nineteenth - century and early- twentieth - century European colonialism . Nevertheless books are written and congresses held with " the Orient " as their main focus , with the Orientalist in his new or old guise as their main authority ...
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... nineteenth century had really meant only India and the Bible lands . From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism ; since World War II America has ...
... nineteenth century had really meant only India and the Bible lands . From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism ; since World War II America has ...
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... Panikkar's classic Asia and Western Dominance.2 The Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be " Oriental " in all those ways considered common- place by an average nineteenth - century European , but Introduction 5.
... Panikkar's classic Asia and Western Dominance.2 The Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be " Oriental " in all those ways considered common- place by an average nineteenth - century European , but Introduction 5.
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Edward W. Said. place by an average nineteenth - century European , but also because it could be that is , submitted to being - made Oriental . There is very little consent to be found , for example , in the fact that Flau- bert's ...
Edward W. Said. place by an average nineteenth - century European , but also because it could be that is , submitted to being - made Oriental . There is very little consent to be found , for example , in the fact that Flau- bert's ...
Contents
| 31 | |
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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