"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"Though generated by thoroughly western rivalries and concerns, invoking the Orient has often been the means by which …"

"Here, however, I will argue that the cultural politics of Orientalistik were defined much less by ‘“‘modern” concerns…"

"I have been forced to conclude that German orientalism — defined as the serious and sustained study of the cultures o…"

"There were travel accounts and anthropological disquisitions; there were histories of philosophy and a bumper crop of…"

"..Iamblichus, Pausanias, Plotinus, and Strabo, scholars who wrote in times of relative Greek insecurity vis-a-vis the…"

"But Creuzer was also a product of his age and its aspirations; like Friedrich Schlegel, he was seeking a supra-confes…"

"This opened the way, as Partha Mitter has argued, for Hegel’s insight that since art represented not reality but some…"

"Though they tended to religious radicalism and political liberalism, most mid-century orientalists did not, as had Mo…"

"Despite the author’s commitment to universalism, Carl Ritter’s Vorhalle (1819) already looked in this direction. In t…"