Epistemological critique can be advanced from within the Arabic tradition as from the Western

Evidence

His idea was to place my work inside one fully formed tradition, as if it were addressing another from a perspective of cultural adequacy and equality. In this way, he reasoned, it was possible to show that just as one could advance an epistemological critique from within the Western tradition, so too could one do it from within the Arabic. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 852

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Establishes that critique of a discourse is not the exclusive property of the tradition that generated it.
• XREF: Relevant to critical-theory vocabulary about whether theory produced in the West can be deployed from other traditions.

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