OrientalismA groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... thought, imagery, and vocabulary that have given it reality and presence in and for the West. The two geographical entities thus support and to an extent reflect each other. Having said that, one must go on to state a number of ...
... thought about, the Orient because he could be there, or could think about it, with very little resistance on the Orient's part. Under the general heading of knowledge of the Orient, and within the umbrella of Western hegemony over the ...
... thought, said, or even done about the Orient follows (perhaps occurs within) certain distinct and intellectually knowable lines. Here too a considerable degree of nuance and elaboration can be seen working as between the broad ...
... thought and analysis to the methodological importance for work in the human sciences of finding and formulating a first step, a point of departure, a beginning principle.” A major lesson I learned and tried to present was that there is ...
... thought than it is simply as a positive doctrine. If the essence of Orientalism is the ineradicable distinction between Western superiority and Oriental inferiority, then we must be prepared to note how in its development and subsequent ...
Contents
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Projects | 73 |
Crisis | 92 |
Redrawn Frontiers Redefined Issues Secularized | 113 |
Rational | 123 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages British and French | 166 |
Latent and Manifest Orientalism | 201 |
Orientalism Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |