For lust of knowing : the orientalists and their enemies /

For lust of knowing : the orientalists and their enemies /

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Main Author: Irwin, Robert, 1946-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: London : Penguin, 2007.

Subjects:

Asianists.
Middle East specialists.
Orientalism.

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Call Number: DS61.85 .I79 2007

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245 1 0 |a For lust of knowing :   |b the orientalists and their enemies /   |c Robert Irwin. 
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300 |a 409 p. :   |c 20 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-376) and index. 
505 0 |a •1. The clash of ancient civilizations •2. An ancient heresy or a new paganism •3. Renaissance Orientalism •4. The holiness of Oriental studies •5. Enlightenment of a sort •6. Oriental studies in the age of steam and cant •7. A house divided against itself •8. The all too brief heyday of Orientalism •9. An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic •10. Enemies of Orientalism. 
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