Enduring Western Civilization
Subtitle: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others"
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: October 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275954000
Subjects: Philosophy; World history; History; History - General History; History: World; Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Civilization, Western; Historiography
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).