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 97
... object " of study , stamped with an otherness -as all that is different , whether it be " subject " or " object " -but of a constitutive otherness , of an essentialist character . . . . This " object " of study will be , as is customary ...
... object " of study , stamped with an otherness -as all that is different , whether it be " subject " or " object " -but of a constitutive otherness , of an essentialist character . . . . This " object " of study will be , as is customary ...
Page 140
... object in question comparatively with other like objects ; and by " comparatively " Renan intended a complex network of paradigmatic relations that obtained between Semitic and Indo - European languages . 43 If in what I have so far ...
... object in question comparatively with other like objects ; and by " comparatively " Renan intended a complex network of paradigmatic relations that obtained between Semitic and Indo - European languages . 43 If in what I have so far ...
Page 145
... object in nature — including even the philologist - once the object is scientifically placed there by the examining scientist . Thereafter between the object and the scientist a bond of sympathy is estab- lished . Of course , this can ...
... object in nature — including even the philologist - once the object is scientifically placed there by the examining scientist . Thereafter between the object and the scientist a bond of sympathy is estab- lished . Of course , this can ...
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