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 114
... vision , some- times accompanied by a special scientific technique . Among the visions Flaubert has in mind are the utopias of Saint - Simon and Fourier , the scientific regenerations of mankind envisioned by Comte , and all the ...
... vision , some- times accompanied by a special scientific technique . Among the visions Flaubert has in mind are the utopias of Saint - Simon and Fourier , the scientific regenerations of mankind envisioned by Comte , and all the ...
Page 240
... vision because it presumes that the whole Orient can be seen panoptically , there is a constant pressure . The source of pressure is narrative , in that if any Oriental detail can be shown to move , or to develop , diachrony is ...
... vision because it presumes that the whole Orient can be seen panoptically , there is a constant pressure . The source of pressure is narrative , in that if any Oriental detail can be shown to move , or to develop , diachrony is ...
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... vision by which the details of Oriental life serve merely to reassert the Orientalness of the subject and the Westernness of the observer . If such a vision in some ways recalls Dante's , we should by no means fail to notice what an ...
... vision by which the details of Oriental life serve merely to reassert the Orientalness of the subject and the Westernness of the observer . If such a vision in some ways recalls Dante's , we should by no means fail to notice what an ...
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