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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 950.072
EAN: 9780394740676
ISBN: 039474067X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 12, 1979
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 12, 1979
Sales Rank: 4403
Studio: Vintage
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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Edward Said, the celebrated scholar and stone thrower,(1) treats us to a generous helping of deconstructionism, nominalism and solipsism in his review of roughly 250 years of Western systematic misunderstanding of the East. Along the way he provides a fresh perspective to the prejudices and premises by Western scholars, an invaluable service. Having said that, however, his analysis is too contradictory.
Said's essential argument is as follows: humans categorize things into "binaries": ... Read More
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Few books in the modern world have acquired the stature of Edward Said's "Orientalism". It has become the de facto authority on the Western perspective of the Middle Eastern and Oriental worlds. Using impeccable scholarship and irrefutable evidence from two centuries' worth of European writing about the East, Edward Said lays down an indisputable case about how Western so-called "objective" and "scientific" study of the East has been corrupted and is far from describing reality. "Orientalism"'s main ... Read More
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Dr. Said missed the track completely with this supposed historical analysis that is neither historical nor good analysis. While I won't write pages of critique, here are just a few examples of poor work to make points not supported by fact (nor faith).
1. The British and French controlled the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 17th century. False - the Ottomans controlled that area; French and British merchants needed permission to trade. None of the lands of the Eastern Med. were ... Read More
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This book is a great overview and as noted by many others, a true work of literary genius. Colonial subjects, such as Said himself, have a hard time placing themselves in the mess of Colonialism and the supposed Post-Colonial era we live in and this book aids in that coming to terms process. Said manages to marry the subjectivity of his reality with the brilliant grasp of academia. A Must read by all, to gain a better idea of the world and times we live in.
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Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said claims that Western ideas of the `Orient' are not based upon objective facts but are created through academic and cultural `discourses' which serve to promote Western imperialism - often despite `liberal' intentions.
This mythical `East' is the antithesis of the West, a negative or inversion of the 'Occident' which is used to define *both* in binary opposition to each other, and to facilitate the political and domination of the East.
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