The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
By: Ian Almond
3.43
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
The west's Orientalism -- its construction of the Arab "Other" -- has been exposed, examined and ex…
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. The Didache
By: Anonymous
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
The Teaching of the Twelve- an early Christian compilation. Traditionally ascribed to the Twelve Ap… read more
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3. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more
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4. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more
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5. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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6. Course in General Linguistics
By: Ferdinand de Saussure , None
0.00
Format: None pages,
Publie en 1916, le Cours de linguistique generale a ete redige par les eleves de Ferdinand de Sauss… read more
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7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and the Mystic East
By: Richard King
4.23
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Orientalism and Religionoffers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colo… read more
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9. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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10. What IS Sex?
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.25
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more
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"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, n…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
11. Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam
By: Shahab Ahmed
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in … read more
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12. The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
By: Ian Almond
3.43
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
The west's Orientalism -- its construction of the Arab "Other" -- has been exposed, examined and ex… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
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