Skeptical critical consciousness is the ethical norm for scholarship on the Other

Evidence

Yet for at least a decade and a half his work in the main has been aggressiyely ideological, despite his various attempts at subtlety and irony. I mention his recent writing as a perfect exemplification of the academic whose work purports to be liberal objective scholarship but is in reality very close to being propaganda against his subject material. But this should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the history of Orientalism; it is only the latest—and in the West, the most uncriticized—of the scandals of “scholarship.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 801 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Purportedly objective scholarship can function as propaganda against its subject — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 801; Scholarship is never neutral, so honesty requires declaring one’s standpoint

Related

• Purportedly objective scholarship can function as propaganda against its subject (similarity 0.90)
• Scholarship is never neutral, so honesty requires declaring one’s standpoint (similarity 0.84)
• Learned Orientalist scholarship pressed ideological myths into service (similarity 0.84)
• Scholarship cannot be politically neutral (similarity 0.83)
• Scholarly work is never neutral but can still stay open to contrary evidence (similarity 0.83)
• Essentialized etymology discredits a people’s political agency while posing as neutral scholarship (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism undermines the possibility of nonpolitical scholarship. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Orientalist critics ignored the actual scholarly merits of Orientalist findings (similarity 0.81)
• Academic Orientalist expertise legitimizes rather than corrects crude stereotypes (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist scholarship mounted political and ideological edges rather than neutral knowledge (similarity 0.81)
• Said’s critique stayed at representation because going further would destroy his liberal commitments (similarity 0.80)
• Studying other cultures without repression requires rethinking knowledge and power (similarity 0.80)
• All Orientalist writing, even purportedly neutral science, centers a European ego (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist scholarship reframed itself as disinterested after the commercial rationale faded (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist scholarship confirms rather than unsettles existing ideas about the Orient. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Purportedly objective scholarship can function as propaganda against its subject #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 801