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Dangerous knowledge : orientalism and its discontents / Robert Irwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irwin, Robert, 1946-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism.
- Middle East--Study and teaching.
- Middle East.
- Asia--Study and teaching.
- Asia.
- Middle East--Foreign public opinion, Occidental.
- Asia--Foreign public opinion, Occidental.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- 409 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- U.K. edition published under title: For lust of knowing : the orientalists and their enemies
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- The clash of ancient civilizations
- An ancient heresy of a new paganism
- Renaissance orientalism
- The holiness of Oriental studies
- Enlightenment of a sort
- Oriental studies in the age of stream and cant
- A house divided against itself
- The all too brief heyday of Orientalism
- An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic
- Enemies of Orientalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 158567835X
- 9781585678358
- OCLC:
- 69021089
- Publisher Number:
- 9781585678358
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