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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... texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and intuitively , using erudition and an excellent command of several languages to support the kind of under- standing that Goethe advocated for his understanding of Islamic literature ...
... texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and intuitively , using erudition and an excellent command of several languages to support the kind of under- standing that Goethe advocated for his understanding of Islamic literature ...
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... Texts have to be read as texts that were pro- duced and live on in the historical realm in all sorts of what I have called worldly ways . But this by no means excludes power , since on the contrary what I have tried to show in my book ...
... Texts have to be read as texts that were pro- duced and live on in the historical realm in all sorts of what I have called worldly ways . But this by no means excludes power , since on the contrary what I have tried to show in my book ...
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... texts and the Biblical lands , the spice trade , colonial armies and a long tradition of colonial administrators , a formidable schol- arly corpus , innumerable Oriental " experts " and " hands , " an Orien- tal professorate , a complex ...
... texts and the Biblical lands , the spice trade , colonial armies and a long tradition of colonial administrators , a formidable schol- arly corpus , innumerable Oriental " experts " and " hands , " an Orien- tal professorate , a complex ...
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... texts about the Orient ; nor is it representative and expressive of some nefarious " Western " imperialist plot to hold down the " Oriental " world . It is rather a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic , scholarly ...
... texts about the Orient ; nor is it representative and expressive of some nefarious " Western " imperialist plot to hold down the " Oriental " world . It is rather a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic , scholarly ...
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... texts exist in contexts , that there is such a thing as intertextuality , that the pressures of conventions , predecessors , and rhetorical styles limit what Walter Benjamin once called the " overtaxing of the productive person in the ...
... texts exist in contexts , that there is such a thing as intertextuality , that the pressures of conventions , predecessors , and rhetorical styles limit what Walter Benjamin once called the " overtaxing of the productive person in the ...
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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