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The “good Orientalists”

  • Lena Salaymeh
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Abstract

This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a “good Orientalist.” Contesting the assumptions behind the distinction between “good” and “bad” orientalists, the chapter shows that Goldziher’s scholarly methods relied on Orientalist bias. Such bias is the result of blindly repeating and imposing Eurocentric methods, including the blurring of Jewish and Islamic traditions into a single “Semitic” or “religious” tradition.

Abstract

This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a “good Orientalist.” Contesting the assumptions behind the distinction between “good” and “bad” orientalists, the chapter shows that Goldziher’s scholarly methods relied on Orientalist bias. Such bias is the result of blindly repeating and imposing Eurocentric methods, including the blurring of Jewish and Islamic traditions into a single “Semitic” or “religious” tradition.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Before Westernness
  6. Competing with the East 9
  7. The Westernness of Philosophy
  8. ‘What is foreign becomes close and what is close becomes foreign’. Ethics and Geography in the Works of Meister Eckhart 43
  9. Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant 57
  10. On the Universal Notion of a Person 67
  11. The Westernness of Orientalism
  12. Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam Between East and West 87
  13. The “good Orientalists” 105
  14. The Westernness of Europe
  15. In the Center But Not in the Middle: T. G. Masaryk and Czech Geopolitical Discussions in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 137
  16. The Westernness of (The) Americans
  17. Televising the West: The Television Set of The Americans 161
  18. Russian Orthodoxy as Constitutive of Westernness in The Americans 179
  19. Western Reflections: The Mirrored Real and the Imaginary in The Americans 203
  20. After Westernness
  21. Reinventing the West: The Invention of the West 25 Years Later 221
  22. A Brief Genealogy of the West 231
  23. About the Authors 259
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110728422-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Before Westernness
  6. Competing with the East 9
  7. The Westernness of Philosophy
  8. ‘What is foreign becomes close and what is close becomes foreign’. Ethics and Geography in the Works of Meister Eckhart 43
  9. Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant 57
  10. On the Universal Notion of a Person 67
  11. The Westernness of Orientalism
  12. Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam Between East and West 87
  13. The “good Orientalists” 105
  14. The Westernness of Europe
  15. In the Center But Not in the Middle: T. G. Masaryk and Czech Geopolitical Discussions in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 137
  16. The Westernness of (The) Americans
  17. Televising the West: The Television Set of The Americans 161
  18. Russian Orthodoxy as Constitutive of Westernness in The Americans 179
  19. Western Reflections: The Mirrored Real and the Imaginary in The Americans 203
  20. After Westernness
  21. Reinventing the West: The Invention of the West 25 Years Later 221
  22. A Brief Genealogy of the West 231
  23. About the Authors 259
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