"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"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…"