Enduring Western Civilization
Subtitle: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others"
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: October 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275951542
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; World history; Historiography; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); History; History - General History; Sociology; Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Civilization, Western
First sentence: In 1978, when Edward Said published Orientalism, he argued that, far from being shaped by disinterested scholarship, Orientalism as "a mode of discourse" corroborated by "supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines" was largely a self-referential system, developed in conjunction with Western imperialism for which it served important functions (Said, 1978: 2).