Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient A Critical Discourse (18721932) (Paperback)

Paperback. A century before the publication of Edward Saids Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired cliches about the Orient. In this book, Zeynep Celik recontextualizes Eurocentric postcolonial studies, unearthing an important episode in modern Middle Eastern intellectual history and curating a selection of primary texts illustrating the debates. A Critical Discourse 18721932. A critical inquiry on the major themes that dominated early responses to Orientalism Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.