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ISBN-10: 0-394-74067-X
ISBN-13: 9780394740676
Publisher: Vintage
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Year: October 12, 1979
Edition: 1st Vintage Books edition
Size: 13.21 x 20.19 x 2.59cm
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 340gr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-394-74067-X
ISBN-13: 9780394740676
Publisher: Vintage
Country:
Year: October 12, 1979
Edition: 1st Vintage Books edition
Size: 13.21 x 20.19 x 2.59cm
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 340gr
Binding: Paperback
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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.
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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A Must Have for Cultural Anthropologists. 
Theory is usually incredibly dense and boring, but Said present his complex arguments in an interesting and relatively easy to understand format. I've checked this book out from the library so many times for so many papers I can't believe I just got around to buying my own copy. Honestly, I could not have gotten through graduate school without this book. Thank you Edward Said!
Theory is usually incredibly dense and boring, but Said present his complex arguments in an interesting and relatively easy to understand format. I've checked this book out from the library so many times for so many papers I can't believe I just got around to buying my own copy. Honestly, I could not have gotten through graduate school without this book. Thank you Edward Said!
Masterful work!
Masterful work by Dr. Said. This book was written twenty years ago, but the hypothesis remains relevant today. The book reveals an urgency to better understand the Arab/Muslim world for those in the West!
Masterful work by Dr. Said. This book was written twenty years ago, but the hypothesis remains relevant today. The book reveals an urgency to better understand the Arab/Muslim world for those in the West!
exceptional!
An exceptionally well-written, very intelligent book- an essential read. Said not only wonderfully contextualizes orientalism by drawing on a myriad of texts, but examines it with a critical eye. This book is one of the most important books written in the post-modern erea.
An exceptionally well-written, very intelligent book- an essential read. Said not only wonderfully contextualizes orientalism by drawing on a myriad of texts, but examines it with a critical eye. This book is one of the most important books written in the post-modern erea.
Good idea, bad book. 
Said's book starts with the indisputable premise that the West's view of »the Orient« was distorted due to the West's own preconceptions and needs. This is one of the basic hazards of perception. But rather than a dispassionate analysis of this phenomenon, Said's book alternates between indignant screed and irrelevant windiness. The analysis is really poor – shockingly poor – and I don't think I got anything out of the book once I was past its main idea. Looking at the other reviewers, I'm not sure they did either. There is not one impressive insight about any of the texts Said analyzes – from Balfour to Flaubert to Kipling to Dante, they all become cookie-cutter »Orientalists.« Even Homer and George Eliot get tarred with the same brush as Burton and T.E. Lawrence. I think I learned about neither Europe nor the Orient. I'd suggest looking at a page or two before purchasing. I doubt you'll be impressed. In certain ways, this is probably why the book is famous: Said created a field but left it to others to actually explore its riches.
Said's book starts with the indisputable premise that the West's view of »the Orient« was distorted due to the West's own preconceptions and needs. This is one of the basic hazards of perception. But rather than a dispassionate analysis of this phenomenon, Said's book alternates between indignant screed and irrelevant windiness. The analysis is really poor – shockingly poor – and I don't think I got anything out of the book once I was past its main idea. Looking at the other reviewers, I'm not sure they did either. There is not one impressive insight about any of the texts Said analyzes – from Balfour to Flaubert to Kipling to Dante, they all become cookie-cutter »Orientalists.« Even Homer and George Eliot get tarred with the same brush as Burton and T.E. Lawrence. I think I learned about neither Europe nor the Orient. I'd suggest looking at a page or two before purchasing. I doubt you'll be impressed. In certain ways, this is probably why the book is famous: Said created a field but left it to others to actually explore its riches.
Read this book with an open mind.
I believe that Said has been attacked by favorers of opposite views and different thinkers in a biased way without paying attention to what he can offer. It is inevitable that a book like Orientalism with such a controversial topic will create responses the way this one did. Regardless of the emotional responses that works in this line create, Said has done a great job documenting the well researched history of the West's view of the east –-the Orient--, and how it has been shaped by the past interests, tensions, and alike.
I believe that Said has been attacked by favorers of opposite views and different thinkers in a biased way without paying attention to what he can offer. It is inevitable that a book like Orientalism with such a controversial topic will create responses the way this one did. Regardless of the emotional responses that works in this line create, Said has done a great job documenting the well researched history of the West's view of the east –-the Orient--, and how it has been shaped by the past interests, tensions, and alike.
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- Asia
- Asia|General
- East and West
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnic Studies|General
- Foreign public opinion, Occide
- History
- History: World
- History|Middle East|General
- Imperialism
- Middle East
- Middle East|General
- Orientalism
- Reference & Home Learning
- Social Science
- Social Science|Ethnic Studies|General
- Sociology
- Sociology, Social Studies
- Study and teaching
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