Comparative description of the Orient functions as evaluation and judgment.
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- Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.81)
- Orientalism operates as a constraint on thought, not a positive doctrine. (similarity 0.81)
- The Orientalist expert becomes the representative Oriental himself (similarity 0.80)
- So-called objective accounts encode the standpoint of the powerful (similarity 0.79)
- Power remakes the Orient through expedient knowledge that erases real histories (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalist definitions can override a thinker’s own human sympathy for real suffering (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.79)
- Nineteenth-century Orientalism was born from comparative philology (similarity 0.78)
- Critical work advances dialogically and never reaches stable theoretical ground. (similarity 0.78)
- Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning. (similarity 0.78)