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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Orientalism is a Western invention founded on an entirely manufactured idea: the Orient.
Chapter 3: Driven by economic and political interests, Orientalism asserted knowing the Orient better than the Orient’s own people did themselves.
Chapter 4: Socioeconomic shifts compelled Orientalism to evolve and adapt.
Chapter 5: Orientalism sought to prove its central findings about the Orient through varied methods.
Chapter 6: Two figures in particular cemented Orientalism’s findings as scientific by relying upon categorization and classification.
Chapter 7: The tools Orientalists used to view the Orient actually kept them from perceiving its nuances fully.
Chapter 8: Colonialism, resistance movements, and the First and Second World Wars transformed Orientalism.
Chapter 9: The United States has become Orientalism’s central hub these days.
Description
Orientalism (1978) shines a light on the often unquestioned assumptions about Eastern civilizations that are persistently prevalent in the West. By unearthing and analyzing the West’s biases, Edward Said aims to undermine Orientalism’s influence on how the West perceives and interacts with the East.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone fascinated by non-Western civilizations
- Anyone curious about the origins of modern international politics
- Anyone interested in the history of colonialism and its remaining traces today