The Theme Is The Way In Which Intellectual Traditions Are Created And Trans-mitted... Orientalism Is The Example Mr. Said Uses, And By It He Means Something Precise. The Scholar Who Studies The Orient (and Specifically The Muslim Orient), The Imaginitive Writer Who Takes It As His Subject, And The Institutions Which Have Been Concerned With Teaching It, Settling It, Ruling It, All Have A Certain Representation Or Idea Of The Orient Defined As Being Other Than The Occident, Mysterious, Unchanging And Ultimately Inferior. --albert Houran -- From Http://www.amazon.com (jan. 28, 2014). Chap. 1: The Scope Of Orientalism: I. Knowing The Oriental -- Ii. Imaginative Geography And Its Representations: Orientalizing The Oriental -- Iii. Projects -- Iv. Crisis -- Chap. 2: Orientalist Structures And Restructures: I. Redrawn Frontiers, Redefines Issues, Secularized Religion -- Ii. Silvestre De Sacy And Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology And Philological Laboratory -- Iii. Oriental Residence And Scholarship: The Requirements Of Lexicography And Imagination -- Iv. Pilgrims And Pilgrimages, British And French -- Chap. 3: Orientalism Now: I. Latent And Manifest Orientalism -- Ii. Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness -- Iii. Modern Anglo-french Orientalism In Fullest Flower -- Iv. The Latest Phase Edward W. Said. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Religious Studies
- Religious Groups
- Islamic
- Religious Groups
- Religious Studies
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Said, Edward W.
Language : English
Edition : 1st Vintage Books ed
Published :1979-10-12
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 039474067X
ISBN-13 : 9780394740676
Item weight : 2.31 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.2 in x 7.9 in
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