Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents by Robert Irwin

Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents

Robert Irwin

416 pages first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous informative slow-paced
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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...

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