Orientalism

出版者:Vintage

作者:Edward W. Said

页数:368

出版时间:1979-10-12

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780394740676

具体描述

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.

In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions.

Critiquing Said, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair, wrote that he denied any possibility "that direct Western engagement in the region is legitimate" and that Said's analysis cast "every instance of European curiosity about the East [as] part of a grand design to exploit and remake what Westerners saw as a passive, rich, but ultimately contemptible 'Oriental' sphere". [2]

The British historian Bernard Lewis is another important critic who took issue with Said's work. The two authors exchanged a famous polemic in the pages of the New York Review of Books following the publication of Orientalism. Lewis' article, "The question of orientalism" was followed in the next issue by "Orientalism: an exchange".

作者简介

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."

Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947.

His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Israeli forces.

At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo, and then Mount Hermon School in the United States. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades.

Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin.

Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.

Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

读后感

恐惧下的学科——萨义德《东方学》读书笔记 “……现代东方学自身已经带有欧洲对伊斯兰巨大恐惧之印记……”——《东方学》P324 用了几乎半年，拉锯战般地，才将洋洋洒洒的厚度达到400页的《东方学》读了大半。恨是不敢下笔，因为甚至作者的很多论点都没有了解透彻，便胆大妄为...  

本書原名是《ORIENTALISM》，當然我們慣於將ISM字尾譯成"主義"，但所謂ORIENTALISM，原始的意思是"東方學"，即長久以來西方(傳統歐州國家)，如何研究東方(以中東為主的地區)，以及這種思考脈絡下所形成的一種學術方法。但在書中，薩依德真正要告訴我們的是，這種思考脈絡如何成...

本書原名是《ORIENTALISM》，當然我們慣於將ISM字尾譯成"主義"，但所謂ORIENTALISM，原始的意思是"東方學"，即長久以來西方(傳統歐州國家)，如何研究東方(以中東為主的地區)，以及這種思考脈絡下所形成的一種學術方法。但在書中，薩依德真正要告訴我們的是，這種思考脈絡如何成...

用户评价

Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

comp lit humm..

Some distinctive objects are made by the mind,and these objects,while appearing to exist objectively,have only a fictional reality.东方永远只是欧洲人眼中的东方，而欧洲人的“东方”概念架构竟也随着殖民扩张渐渐内化到我们的无意识里，直至今天我们依然根深蒂固的认为我们所在的这片土地是东方。

经典中不咋给力的一本。

多年前看中文版时并无什么感觉。离开文学理论领域，再读，才发现萨义德的好处，也深刻体会到不同学科在方法上的区别。