الاستشراق: المفاهيم الغربية للشرق
ISBN:
9776174213
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: رؤية للنشر والتوزيع
Pages no: 534
Edition language: Arabic
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Theory
As we watch America and its allies reproducing cycles of violence, despotism and mayhem across the Middle East, it is blindingly obvious that there is something profoundly wrong with the way Western governments think and act in that region. Edward Said sets out in this book an account of two centuri...
Preface (2003)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction--OrientalismAfterword (1995)NotesIndex
"Know people, not books about people."
Said's critique of Orientalism as an academic discipline is too larded with pomo craziness, with too little analysis (one could say, none) of the actual consequences of regarding all of Asia, the Middle East, and Egypt as one homogenous conglomerate of racist stereotypes.
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