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The Birth of Orientalism (Paperback)
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The Birth of Orientalism (Paperback)
Series: Encounters with Asia
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Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century
European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App
demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long
gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than
by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages,
many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a
completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying
dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense
influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern
cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he
shows that some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products
of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement
with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and
can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale
religiocultural encounter in history, it has so far received
surprisingly little attention-which is why some of its major
features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalism are
described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had
a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the
Bible had much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit
threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, and
Judeo-Christianity appeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically
expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies.
Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved
neither gold and spices nor colonialism and imperialism but,
rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we
are: questions of identity that demanded new answers as biblical
authority dramatically waned.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Encounters with Asia |
Release date: |
October 2015 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Urs App
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
568 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-2346-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
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LSN: |
0-8122-2346-2 |
Barcode: |
9780812223460 |
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