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Orientalism

Author Edward W. Said
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Knopf | Vintage
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On sale Oct 12, 1979 | 9780394740676
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A 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. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi

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

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.
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
"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

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A 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. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi

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

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.

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

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

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