Quotes Tagged With :orientalism

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but....

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is....

I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like....

At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and....

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist...You know the sort. He's lived in the Middle East....

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such....

... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers....

Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with....

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of....