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 16
... given , or simply available , starting point : beginnings have to be made for each project in such a way as to enable what follows from them . Nowhere in my experience has the difficulty of this lesson been more consciously lived ( with ...
... given , or simply available , starting point : beginnings have to be made for each project in such a way as to enable what follows from them . Nowhere in my experience has the difficulty of this lesson been more consciously lived ( with ...
Page 60
... given to Islam , and the auto- matic epithet " imposter " applied to Mohammed.37 Out of such and many other misconceptions " there formed a circle which was never broken by imaginative exteriorisation . . . . The Christian concept of ...
... given to Islam , and the auto- matic epithet " imposter " applied to Mohammed.37 Out of such and many other misconceptions " there formed a circle which was never broken by imaginative exteriorisation . . . . The Christian concept of ...
Page 142
... given on the page and in the museum case is a truncated exaggeration , like many of Sacy's Oriental extracts , whose purpose is to exhibit a relationship between the science ( or scientist ) and the object , not one between the object ...
... given on the page and in the museum case is a truncated exaggeration , like many of Sacy's Oriental extracts , whose purpose is to exhibit a relationship between the science ( or scientist ) and the object , not one between the object ...
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