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Orientalism

By Edward W. Said

By Edward W. Said

By Edward W. Said

By Edward W. Said

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    About Orientalism

    More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said’s groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

    In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of “orientalism” to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined “the orient” simply as “other than” the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

    About Orientalism

    More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said’s groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

    In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of “orientalism” to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined “the orient” simply as “other than” the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

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    About Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University,… More about Edward W. Said

    About Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University,… More about Edward W. Said

    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 12, 1979 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394740676

    Category: Domestic Politics

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 01, 2014 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780804153867

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    Praise

    “Intellectual history on a high order . . . and very exciting.” —The New York Times

    “Powerful and disturbing. . . . The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted.” —The New York Review of Books

    “Stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious. . . . Said observes the West observing the Arabs, and he does not like what he finds.” —The Observer

    “An important book. . . . Never has there been as sustained and as persuasive a case against Orientalism as Said’s.” —Jerusalem Post

    Table Of Contents

    The Scope of Orientalism
    1. Knowing the Oriental
    2. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental
    3. Projects
    4. Crisis

    Orientalist Structures and Restructures
    1. Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion
    2. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory
    3. Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination
    4. Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French

    Orientalism Now
    1. Latent and Manifest Orientalism
    2. Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism’s Worldliness
    3. Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower
    4. The Latest Phase

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