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ISBN
039474067X
EAN
9780394740676
Date of Publication
19791012
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Orientalism: Edward W. Said
Artist
Said, Edward W.
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Book Title
Orientalism
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Edition
25
Publication Year
1979
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Edward W. Said
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Regional Studies, Imperialism, Customs & Traditions, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
432 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
039474067X
ISBN-13
9780394740676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Edition
25
Book Title
Orientalism
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Regional Studies, Imperialism, Customs & Traditions, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
1979
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Author
Edward W. Said
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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LCCN
79-010497
Dewey Edition
21
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"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, "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 Hourani, New York Review of Books
Dewey Decimal
950
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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., 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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    Oct 12, 2016Top favorable review

    Worth the read!!!!

    This is a classic and a must read for anyone interested with an open mind about today's American islamophobia. If you have any doubts about what I am saying please read the one star review. This may be hard to read for some because it is written for a high school educated audience. But I promise you that it is worth it no matter what your reading level is!

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  • by qais-0
    Jan 22, 2018

    It's a fare condition! For the price.

    I knew it was a used book . But it has creases and tears on the binding and cover. It's marked in the inside and the pages are yellow.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: solr_books

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    Jul 06, 2021

    One of the best in its category

    Insightful book by an author who knows the history firsthand.

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    Aug 23, 2024

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  • by lostdogtoo
    Jan 29, 2017

    Orientalism by Edward Said

    Pompous, ponificacting, narrow minded professor. Much criticism of all others, himself weak on substance. His analysis is better than any of the Lenard Ronald Herbert of middle east analysis.

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