‘Nuff Edward Said: The Compartmentalization Of The Knowledge
by Anorak | 1st, December 2008
FROM a new biography of Edward Said:
This was, in other words, the moment in Western history that, simultaneous with the expanding geographical horizon of the Eurocentric gaze, witnessed the compartmentalization of the knowledge of being into disciplines and the consequent reduction of its be-ing to ‘fields,’ ‘domains,’ or ‘maps’ and further classifications and tabulations of its living details—that is, the development of knowledge/power relations that, according to Said, came to characterize the next (third) phase of the history of Orientalist discourse.
Sounds thrilling…
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