Inhaltsangabe: Dangerous knowledge :

Dangerous knowledge : orientalism and its discontents

1. Verfasser:	Irwin, Robert , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, [2006].
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Umfang/Format:	409 pages 24 cm.
Schlagworte:	Orientalism. Middle East > Study and teaching. Asia > Study and teaching. Middle East > Foreign public opinion, Occidental. Asia > Foreign public opinion, Occidental.

Inhaltsangabe:

The clash of ancient civilizations
An ancient heresy of a new paganism
Renaissance orientalism
The holiness of Oriental studies
Enlightenment of a sort
Oriental studies in the age of stream and cant
A house divided against itself
The all too brief heyday of Orientalism
An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic
Enemies of Orientalism.