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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-101412808723
ISBN-139781412808729
eBay Product ID (ePID)66850980
Product Key Features
Number of Pages310 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePost-Orientalism : Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror
SubjectAsia / General, General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Psychology, History
AuthorHamid Dabashi
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.9 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2008-045362
Reviews"In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and politically trenchant book and as such, it will nterest everyone concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a wide range of fields." --Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.4827305
Table Of ContentIntroduction to the Paperback Edition Introduction: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror 1. On Exilic Intellectuals 2. Ignaz Goldziher and the Question Concerning Orientalism 3. I Am Not a Subalternist 4. The Creative Crisis of the Subject 5. Pilgrims' Progress: On Revolutionary Border-Crossing 6. Endosmosis: Knowledge without Agency, Empire without Hegemony 7. Towards a New Organicity Conclusion: Changing the Interlocutor Index
SynopsisThis book is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and the power to represent. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? When initiated in the most powerful military machinery in human history, the United States of America, already deeply engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, such militant acts of representation speak voluminously of a far more deeply rooted claim to normative and moral agency, a phenomenon that will have to be unearthed and examined. In his groundbreaking book, Orientalism, Edward Said traced the origin of this power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and European Orientalists around the globe, which enabled them to write and represent the people they thus sought to rule. The insights of Edward Said in Orientalism went a long way in explaining conditions of domination and representation from the classical colonial period in the 18th and 19th century to the time that he wrote his landmark study in the mid 1970's. Though many of his insights still remain valid, Said's observations need to be updated and mapped out to the events that led to the post-9/11 syndrome. Dabashi's book is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of the manners and modes of fighting back and resisting it. This is not to question the significance of Orientalism and its principal concern with the colonial acts of representation, but to provide a different angle on Said's entire oeuvre, an angle that argues for the primacy of the question of postcolonial agency. In Dabashi's tireless attempt to reach for a mode of knowledge production at once beyond the legitimate questions raised about the sovereign subject and yet politically poignant and powerful, postcolonial agency is central. Dabashi's contention is that the figure of an exilic intellectual is ultimately the paramount site for the cultivation of normative and moral agency with a sense of worldly presence. For Dabashi the figure of the exilic intellectual is paramount to produce counter-knowledge production in a time of terror., This book is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and the power to represent, This book is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and the power to represent. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? When initiated in the most powerful military machinery in human history, the United States of America, already deeply engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, such militant acts of representation speak voluminously of a far more deeply rooted claim to normative and moral agency, a phenomenon that will have to be unearthed and examined. In his groundbreaking book, Orientalism , Edward Said traced the origin of this power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and European Orientalists around the globe, which enabled them to write and represent the people they thus sought to rule. The insights of Edward Said in Orientalism went a long way in explaining conditions of domination and representation from the classical colonial period in the 18th and 19th century to the time that he wrote his landmark study in the mid 1970's. Though many of his insights still remain valid, Said's observations need to be updated and mapped out to the events that led to the post-9/11 syndrome. Dabashi's book is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of the manners and modes of fighting back and resisting it. This is not to question the significance of Orientalism and its principal concern with the colonial acts of representation, but to provide a different angle on Said's entire oeuvre, an angle that argues for the primacy of the question of postcolonial agency . In Dabashi's tireless attempt to reach for a mode of knowledge production at once beyond the legitimate questions raised about the sovereign subject and yet politically poignant and powerful, postcolonial agency is central. Dabashi's contention is that the figure of an exilic intellectual is ultimately the paramount site for the cultivation of normative and moral agency with a sense of worldly presence. For Dabashi the figure of the exilic intellectual is paramount to produce counter-knowledge production in a time of terror.
LC Classification NumberDS61.85.D33 2008
