Indo-European philology grounded European languages in a harmless Oriental source.

Evidence

Without what he called spirit and style, the mind could “get lost in archaeology”: he was referring to a sort of regimented antiquarianism by which the exotic and the strange would get formulated into lexicons, codes, and finally clichés of the kind he was to ridicule in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues. Under the influence of such an attitude the world would be “regulated like a college. Teachers will be the law. Everyone will be in uniform.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487; Orientalist scholarship edited the Orient by excising whatever offended European norms; Nineteenth-century Orientalism was born from comparative philology (+1 more)

Related

• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés (similarity 0.90)
• Orientalism operates as radical realism, enumerative rhetoric, and paranoia. (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files (similarity 0.86)
• Oriental tales circulated widely in English literature across two centuries (similarity 0.86)
• Anthology selection masks the Orientalist’s editorial censorship as natural typicality (similarity 0.82)
• Naming someone an Oriental was also an act of derogation (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism became a managerial code through which Europe interpreted itself. (similarity 0.81)
• Classification into an encyclopedia entry neutralizes the threat of heresy (similarity 0.81)
• The word ‘Oriental’ alone invoked a fixed, unchallengeable body of knowledge (similarity 0.81)
• Philology founded Orientalism as a science driven by European imperial acquisition (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist scholarship edited the Orient by excising whatever offended European norms (similarity 0.80)
• Eighteenth-century scholarship grounded European languages in an Oriental source (similarity 0.80)
• Policy jargon like modernization and stability masks old Orientalist stereotypes (similarity 0.80)
• European knowledge of the Orient assembled a restricted archive of tropes that controlled novelty (similarity 0.79)
• Academic Orientalist expertise legitimizes rather than corrects crude stereotypes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés #corroborates (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487
• Orientalist scholarship edited the Orient by excising whatever offended European norms #corroborates (0.80)