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Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World (Paperback)
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Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Europe's Legacy in the Modern World
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Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European
(and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern
understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a
critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity.
This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of
knowledge as entangled between European and non-European cultures.
Drawing from formal oriental studies, epigraphy, travel literature,
and theology, Henning Truper explores how the attempt to
appropriate the world by attaching language to the notion of a
'real' reference in the world ultimately produced a crisis of
meaning. In the process, Truper convincingly challenges received
understandings of the intellectual genealogies of oriental
scholarship and its practices. This ground-breaking study is a
meaningful contribution to current discourses about philology and
significantly adds to our understanding about the relationship
between discursive practices, cultural agendas, and political
systems. As such, it will be of immense value to scholars
researching Europe and the modern world, the history of philology,
and those seeking to historicise the prevalent debates in theory.
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