De Chateaubriand à S. Gouguenheim, l'auteur de Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel, l'islamophobie savante a changé de nature. On règle désormais ses comptes avec l'islam en affirmant ne rien lui devoir. Les contributions remettent à plat le dossier de la transmission arabe du savoir …
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G.S. Hodgson challenges adherents …
Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that …
The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orien…
The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orien…
Focuses on the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses of ""orientalism"" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
Focuses on the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses of ""orientalism"" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day.