Orientalism, Volume 10A 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. |
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... languages what Bopp had done for the Indo - European : so he said in the 1855 preface to the comparative Semitic treatise.40 Therefore Renan's ... Semites and Semitic were creations of Orientalist Orientalist Structures and Restructures 139.
... languages what Bopp had done for the Indo - European : so he said in the 1855 preface to the comparative Semitic treatise.40 Therefore Renan's ... Semites and Semitic were creations of Orientalist Orientalist Structures and Restructures 139.
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Edward W. Said. 41 tions that Semites and Semitic were creations of Orientalist philo- logical study . Since he was ... languages . 43 If in what I have so far said I have insisted so much on Renan's comparatively forgotten study of Semitic ...
Edward W. Said. 41 tions that Semites and Semitic were creations of Orientalist philo- logical study . Since he was ... languages . 43 If in what I have so far said I have insisted so much on Renan's comparatively forgotten study of Semitic ...
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... languages and cultures of the Indo - European group , and even with the other Semitic Oriental languages . 56 The paradox that Renan sustains , however , is that even as he encourages us to see languages as in some way corresponding to ...
... languages and cultures of the Indo - European group , and even with the other Semitic Oriental languages . 56 The paradox that Renan sustains , however , is that even as he encourages us to see languages as in some way corresponding to ...
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