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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... reality . Our role is to widen the field of discussion , not to set limits in accord with the prevailing author- ity . I have spent a great deal of my life during the past thirty - five years advocating the rights of the Palestinian ...
... reality . Our role is to widen the field of discussion , not to set limits in accord with the prevailing author- ity . I have spent a great deal of my life during the past thirty - five years advocating the rights of the Palestinian ...
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... reality represented in Western literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf ; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically ...
... reality represented in Western literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf ; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically ...
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... reality that , as I said at the outset , the world does have a real interdependence of parts that leaves no genuine opportunity for isolation . The point I want to conclude with now is to insist that the ter- rible reductive conflicts ...
... reality that , as I said at the outset , the world does have a real interdependence of parts that leaves no genuine opportunity for isolation . The point I want to conclude with now is to insist that the ter- rible reductive conflicts ...
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... reality and presence in and for the West . The two geographical entities thus support and to an extent reflect each other . Having said that , one must go on to state a number of reasonable qualifications . In the first place , it would ...
... reality and presence in and for the West . The two geographical entities thus support and to an extent reflect each other . Having said that , one must go on to state a number of reasonable qualifications . In the first place , it would ...
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... reality but by a battery of desires , repressions , investments , and projections . If we can point to great Orientalist works of genuine scholarship like Silvestre de Sacy's Chrestomathie arabe or Edward William Lane's Account of the ...
... reality but by a battery of desires , repressions , investments , and projections . If we can point to great Orientalist works of genuine scholarship like Silvestre de Sacy's Chrestomathie arabe or Edward William Lane's Account of the ...
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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