Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.
In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of As...
Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.
In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions.
Critiquing Said, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair, wrote that he denied any possibility "that direct Western engagement in the region is legitimate" and that Said's analysis cast "every instance of European curiosity about the East [as] part of a grand design to exploit and remake what Westerners saw as a passive, rich, but ultimately contemptible 'Oriental' sphere". [2]
The British historian Bernard Lewis is another important critic who took issue with Said's work. The two authors exchanged a famous polemic in the pages of the New York Review of Books following the publication of Orientalism. Lewis' article, "The question of orientalism" was followed in the next issue by "Orientalism: an exchange".
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Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."
Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British...
Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."
Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947.
His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Israeli forces.
At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo, and then Mount Hermon School in the United States. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades.
Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin.
Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Some distinctive objects are made by the mind,and these objects,while appearing to exist objectively,have only a fictional reality.东方永远只是欧洲人眼中的东方，而欧洲人的“东方”概念架构竟也随着殖民扩张渐渐内化到我们的无意识里，直至今天我们依然根深蒂固的认为我们所在的...Some distinctive objects are made by the mind,and these objects,while appearing to exist objectively,have only a fictional reality.东方永远只是欧洲人眼中的东方，而欧洲人的“东方”概念架构竟也随着殖民扩张渐渐内化到我们的无意识里，直至今天我们依然根深蒂固的认为我们所在的这片土地是东方。(展开)
Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky? 最后的边界之后，我们该往何处去？ 最后的天空之后，鸟儿该向哪里飞？ 这学期传播学最后的任务是用40分钟的课堂教学介绍一位批判传播学大师的理论。我选的是爱德华 萨伊德...
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1 有用 綦 2009-04-09 22:30:55
comp lit humm..
22 有用 神探夏洛特二世 2013-01-26 12:12:00
所以其核心在于，所谓“东方”的概念，不过是西方权力利用知识话语构建的一套真理体系，最终以达到其殖民地目的。
2 有用 冬暁 2015-11-07 13:18:30
谈论一些、提及一些、完全避开一些，书中讨论的“东方”也是个精心处理过的概念。
3 有用 曳尾.avi 2019-04-22 21:18:00
萨义德忽略的一个部分在于“欧洲”=“历史进程中的主体和现代”不只是欧洲人的建构，也是第三世界的建构。不对称权力双方对权力结构的固化有同样的贡献。就像性别歧视不是男性对女性的压迫而是全性别共同促成的不平等一样，认为欧洲中心主义的主体只有欧洲事实上也是欧洲中心主义的一种表现。
2 有用 苔衣 2014-03-02 18:59:11
Some distinctive objects are made by the mind,and these objects,while appearing to exist objectively,have only a fictional reality.东方永远只是欧洲人眼中的东方，而欧洲人的“东方”概念架构竟也随着殖民扩张渐渐内化到我们的无意识里，直至今天我们依然根深蒂固的认为我们所在的... Some distinctive objects are made by the mind,and these objects,while appearing to exist objectively,have only a fictional reality.东方永远只是欧洲人眼中的东方，而欧洲人的“东方”概念架构竟也随着殖民扩张渐渐内化到我们的无意识里，直至今天我们依然根深蒂固的认为我们所在的这片土地是东方。 (展开)