Product Description: 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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Rating: - Fatally flawed masterpiece
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A masterpiece about the origins of "knowledge"!
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Unfortunately, Unhistory and a misfed Pretense of facts.
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Intelligent and Poignant
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Said too much..?
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 ... Read More
- Fatally flawed masterpiece
- A masterpiece about the origins of "knowledge"!
- Unfortunately, Unhistory and a misfed Pretense of facts.
- Said too much..?