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.
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
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.
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
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
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, where he was University
Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in
New York City.
He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated
into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of
Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and
the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its
Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process
(1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his
academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and
Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia,
and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.
"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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