Critics of Said still depend on his orientalism framework to make their counterclaims

Evidence

In other words, Kramer accepts the role of the orientalist paradigm in the construction of European discourse. Even the argument that Said ignored German orientalism is replaced here implicitly by the argument that he ignored Jewish scholars, who allegedly challenged orientalist dichotomies. Thus, interestingly, in arguing that Jewish scholars were different, a book dedicated to Bernard Lewis (one of the most vehement critics of Edward Said) is based on an implicit acceptance of Said’s main argument. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 635

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A subtle demonstration that even the strongest critics of a hegemonic framework must borrow its terms to argue against it successfully — a recursive epistemic bind worth sitting with.
• SEED: Article angle: how do scholars who attack a paradigm nevertheless rely on its foundational assumptions to launch their attacks — the ‘enemy’s own arsenal’ problem across academic and political disputes.