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.

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Call Number: DS61.85 .I79 2007

Table of Contents:
  • •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.