Dangerous knowledge
Subtitle: orientalism and its discontents
By: Robert Irwin
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781585678358
Subjects: Orientalism; Middle East -- Study and teaching; Asia -- Study and teaching; Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental; Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-376) and index
Table of contents: title: The clash of ancient civilizations; title: An ancient heresy of a new paganism; title: Renaissance orientalism; title: The holiness of Oriental studies; title: Enlightenment of a sort; title: Oriental studies in the age of stream and cant; title: A house divided against itself; title: The all too brief heyday of Orientalism; title: An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic; title: Enemies of Orientalism