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The works and legacy of the author have endured long after his death.
Still, essential for anyone who wants to engage with the world today.
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I really love this book and the price was also great.
Orientalism is not an endorsement of occidentalism.
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said, east, western, middle and west. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 470 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 26 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book explains that politics did not just shape the views of europeans to the east but turned these cultures in to a pseudoscientific cliche called orientalism in the 19 century to stress that whatever the mood in europe being liberal or conservative the cultures of the east were inferior
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I had to read it for university and i found this book extremely interesting
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It is excellent reading but demands serious readers
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According to edward said they do not necessarily represent the orient as it really is
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On page after page said demonstrates with sublime rhetorical flourish how academic study of the near east was wedded to the political interests and social structures of nineteenth century europe
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Said critiques the orientalist project
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He calls for selfreflection in the academy about the role that it plays in the service of power
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Pretensions to scholarly detachments and suave ponderous accents do not objective science make
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