Robert Irwin attacked this book's dismissal of German scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher in Dangerous Knowledge.
Robert Irwin attacked this book's dismissal of German scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher in Dangerous Knowledge. This book's second chapter analyzes the role of Silvestre de Sacy's anthologies and Ernst Renan's philological research in shaping its central discipline. Other sections of this book compare travelogues written by Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and Nerval and discuss the representations of "imaginative geography." Its last section blasts the "condescension and bad faith" of Bernard Lewis, and uses his writings as examples of the title concept. This book argues that the title concept arose out of the relationship between knowledge and power which occurred when academics accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. For 10 points, name this book about the ways the Western world has constructed a false definition of the East, written by Edward Said.
Robert Irwin attacked this book's dismissal of German scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher in Dangerous Knowledge.
Orientalism