the other the Orient has helped to define Europe(or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginative the vastly expanded American political and economic role in the Near East(the Middle East) makes great claims on our understanding of that Orient
6 the Other the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginative. the vastly expanded American political and economic role in the Near East (the Middle East) makes great claims on our understanding of that Orient
the methodological problems ◆ academic ◆ imaginative meanings historically and materially Foucault's notion of a discourse because of orientalism the Orient was not(and is not) a free subject of thought or action
7 the methodological problems academic imaginative meanings historically and materially Foucault's notion of a discourse because of Orientalism the Orient was not (and is not) a free subject of thought or action
Orientalism derives from British and French cultural enter-pris From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of world War Ii france and britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism since World War II America has dominated the Orient it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident(British, French, or American)
8 Orientalism derives from … British and French cultural enter-pris … From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism since World War II America has dominated the Orient it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident (British, French, or American)
a different methodological alternative o the set of historical generalizations assumption the orient is not an inert fact of nature
9 a different methodological alternative the set of historical generalizations assumption the Orient is not an inert fact of nature