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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Page 145
... culture of his time , a culture to which - as people so unlike each other as Matthew Arnold , Oscar Wilde , James Frazer , and Marcel Proust concurred -he was a very important contributor . To be able to sustain a vision that ...
... culture of his time , a culture to which - as people so unlike each other as Matthew Arnold , Oscar Wilde , James Frazer , and Marcel Proust concurred -he was a very important contributor . To be able to sustain a vision that ...
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... cultural signature , which drew from modernity all its scientific power and all its uncritical self - approbation . For that sort of culture such genealogies as dynasty , tradition , religion , ethnic communities were all simply ...
... cultural signature , which drew from modernity all its scientific power and all its uncritical self - approbation . For that sort of culture such genealogies as dynasty , tradition , religion , ethnic communities were all simply ...
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... culture the right to be generated , except artificially in the philo- logical laboratory . A man was not a child of the culture ; that dynastic conception had been too effectively challenged by philology . Philology taught one how culture ...
... culture the right to be generated , except artificially in the philo- logical laboratory . A man was not a child of the culture ; that dynastic conception had been too effectively challenged by philology . Philology taught one how culture ...
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