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Dangerous knowledge : orientalism and its discontents
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- Creator
- Robert Irwin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 409 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 158567835X, 9781585678358
- OCLC
- ocm69021089
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-376) and index.
- 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