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)
重要但是有一点儿过时，今天的历史学家和后殖民主义作者大概会认同orientalism并不是个封闭的西方认知/权力体系吧，萨义德忽略的一点是被殖民者也会re-appropriate and internalise“东方”身份和话语。self-orientalization exists，不管这算不算得上某种意义上的agency，the fact is that orientalism was/is ...重要但是有一点儿过时，今天的历史学家和后殖民主义作者大概会认同orientalism并不是个封闭的西方认知/权力体系吧，萨义德忽略的一点是被殖民者也会re-appropriate and internalise“东方”身份和话语。self-orientalization exists，不管这算不算得上某种意义上的agency，the fact is that orientalism was/is not manufactured by the west alone. 萨义德是不是也无意识地创造了一个occident呢(展开)
SIMM54, men's work, read introduction, only from Western articles, me, as a Eastern women began to know what is Eastern. For example, China and Japan is called 'far east'
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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0 有用 椽熄 2013-10-24 06:29:34
时隔三年终于开始读原著。萨义德写得沉痛而温柔，很多地方我几乎可以妄自菲薄地说完全理解他。如何回望我们被断章取义的历史，如何真切去触摸一个民族的脉搏。几番眼眶满
1 有用 sweetpop8788 2020-01-30 06:56:19
比起orientalism 我现在倒是更担心self orientalism和reverse orientalism…
1 有用 ECALPAL 2015-12-20 14:29:31
reading this book with an amazing professor.
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)
5 有用 murmur 2018-12-21 05:47:07
最精彩的是开篇两句quote，intro也雄伟壮阔，再往后就有点车轱辘话来回讲。虽然借用福柯知识/权力的那套理论，但还是把这两者的关系处理得太简单清晰了。大概就是要这种“大刀向敌人的头上砍去”的气势，才会引起这么轰动的效果吧。
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-07 17:17:25 广东
位更寄
0 有用 bagins 2024-04-28 14:07:44 上海
听
0 有用 koizumi_yakumo 2024-02-03 22:39:24 瑞典
之后开始变得越来越无聊，很明显不会讲故事，举的例子看得我发困。弃之，也许以后会捡起来读
0 有用 leapolis 2024-01-25 10:35:35 英国
重要但是有一点儿过时，今天的历史学家和后殖民主义作者大概会认同orientalism并不是个封闭的西方认知/权力体系吧，萨义德忽略的一点是被殖民者也会re-appropriate and internalise“东方”身份和话语。self-orientalization exists，不管这算不算得上某种意义上的agency，the fact is that orientalism was/is ... 重要但是有一点儿过时，今天的历史学家和后殖民主义作者大概会认同orientalism并不是个封闭的西方认知/权力体系吧，萨义德忽略的一点是被殖民者也会re-appropriate and internalise“东方”身份和话语。self-orientalization exists，不管这算不算得上某种意义上的agency，the fact is that orientalism was/is not manufactured by the west alone. 萨义德是不是也无意识地创造了一个occident呢 (展开)
0 有用 范文婧 2024-01-10 20:38:03 瑞典
SIMM54, men's work, read introduction, only from Western articles, me, as a Eastern women began to know what is Eastern. For example, China and Japan is called 'far east'