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Not a bot. Most of my posts are from a book I am reading. This year it's Edward Said's 'Orientalism'.
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of Cairene architecture, decoration, fountains, and locks. When a narrative strain re-emerges, it is clearly only as a formality. 3/3
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Thereafter we are told that the heat "excites the Egyptian [an unqualified generalization] to intemperance in sensual enjoyments," and soon are bogged down in descriptions, complete with charts and line drawings, 2/3
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What matters is that the report seem accurate, general, and dispassionate, that the English reader be convinced that Lane was never infected with heresy or apostasy, and finally, that Lane's text cancel the human content of its subject matter in favor of its scientific validity. 4/4
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No mind is given by Lane to the betrayal of his friendship with Ahmed or with the others who provide him with information. 3/4
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for the latter undercuts the former in no uncertain way. Thus what seems to be factual reporting of what ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ rather peculiar Muslim does is made to appear by Lane as the candidly exposed center of ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ Muslim faith. 2/4
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In all three portions of the Sheikh Ahmed episode the distance between the Muslim and Lane increases, even as in the action itself it decreases. 3/3
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inspired by Lane's audacious mimicry, can he go through the motions of praying by his side in a mosque. This final achievement is preceded by two scenes in which Ahmed is portrayed as a bizarre glass-eater and a polygamist. 2/3
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Thus while one portion of Lane's identity floats easily in the unsuspecting Muslim sea, a submerged part retains its secret European power, to comment on, acquire, possess everything around it. 3/3
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Lest that imply Lane's having lost his objectivity, he goes on to say that he conformed only to the words (his italics) of the Koran, and that he was always aware of his difference from an essentially alien culture. 2/3
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Every work on the Orient in these categories tries to characterize the place, of course, but what is of greater interest is the extent to which the work's internal structure is in some measure synonymous with a comprehensive ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (or an attempt at it) of the Orient. 2/2
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This is where actually knowing a little about Karl Marx would've helped these chuds. There's no way the State would've withered away in five measly months.
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What that censor did was to stop and then chase away the sympathy, and this was accompanied by a lapidary definition: Those people, it said, don't sufferโthey are Orientals and hence have to be treated in other ways than the ones you've just been using. 3/3
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could find a precollective, preofficial individuality in Asiaโfind and give in to its pressures upon his emotions, feelings, sensesโonly to give it up when he confronted a more formidable censor in the very vocabulary he found himself forced to employ. 2/3
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with the British colonial rule he condemned gets skewed back towards the old inequality between East and West we have so far remarked. Second, it requires us to ask where the human sympathy has gone, into what realm of thought it has disappeared while the Orientalist vision takes its place. 2/2
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Marxโs style pushes us right up against the difficulty of reconciling our natural repugnance as fellow creatures to the sufferings of Orientals while their society is being violently transformed with the historical necessity of these transformations. 3/3
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In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there a real social revolution. 2/3
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The all-important kerning is good, but the centering is suspect
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is immense, but at bottom what the early Orientalist achieved, and what the non-Orientalist in the West exploited, was a reduced model of the Orient suitable for the prevailing, dominant culture and its theoretical (and hard after the theoretical, the practical) exigencies. 3/3
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justifying British intervention in the Crimean War. Cuvier found the Orient useful for his work ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ (1816). The Orient was usefully employed as conversation in the various salons of Paris. The list of references, borrowings, and transformations that overtook the Oriental idea 2/3
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Yet Mohammed is a hero, transplanted into Europe out of the same barbaric Orient found wanting by Lord Macaulay in his famous "Minute" of 1835, in which it was asserted that "our native subjects" have more to learn from us than we do from them.โ 4/4
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Not a paragon of lucidity and stylistic grace himself, Carlyle asserts these things as a way of rescuing Mohammed from the Benthamite standards that would have condemned both Mohammed and him together. 3/4
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that is โa wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement; most crude, inconditeโ insupportable stupidity, in short.โ 2/4
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The point here is that as a figure for his own time and place Mohammed is effaced, in order for a very slight human miniature of him to be left standing. 3/3
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Caussinโs intention was to leave nothing unsaid about Mohammed; the Prophet is thereby seen in a cold light, stripped both of his immense religious force and of any residual powers to frighten Europeans. 2/3
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Separate zones
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The default setting for those who reside at a higher level on a hierarchy is to marginalize those who are lower
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which the world has yet known." Many of the same notions are to be found in the work of Alfred Lyall, who was one of the authors cited approvingly by Cromer. 4/4
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are still considered reliable monuments of scholarship, yet.his attitude towards his subject matter was fairly put by him when he said that "the sword of Muhammed, and the Kor'ฤn, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth 3/4
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compounded in 1864 by a volume arguing that the Jews' primitive God was not Jahweh but Baal, proof for which was to be found in Mecca, of all places. Muir's ๐๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต (1858-1861) and his ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ, ๐๐ต๐ด ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ, ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ (1891) 2/4
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besought scholarly, scientific treatment of the kind to be found in disciplines like philology, biology, history, anthropology, philosophy, or economics. 2/2
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Hi, fellow GenXer. Do you not remember all of the preppies who thought Reagan was so awesome?
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When the poly/cotton blend tips too far towards the poly, percentagewise
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I'd like to think I'll know the moment that my civil disobedience will count and not just seem like a performative gesture. Resist for your own sake, for the people you love, for the community around you. Picking your battles is really the best and easiest answer.
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Oooh, show the bar that represents the average score for all the legacy admissions
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Whether this comparative attitude is principally a scholarly necessity or whether it is disguised ethnocentric race prejudice, we cannot say with absolute certainty. What we can say is that the two work together, in support of each other. 2/2
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it set up a complex affiliation between Orientalism and its putative human subject matter that is based finally on power and not really on disinterested objectivity. 2/2