Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge

by Wael B. Hallaq

Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231187629
• ISBN13: 9780231187626
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"