Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Author:   Henning Trüper (Leibniz Zentrum fur Kultur, Germany) ,  Bo Strath ,  Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki Finland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350117372


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Henning Trüper (Leibniz Zentrum fur Kultur, Germany) ,  Bo Strath ,  Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki Finland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781350117372


ISBN 10:   1350117374
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Preface: History in Meaning 1. After Philology, a Wild Goose Chase 2. The Suicide of Naffa' wad 'Etmân 3. The Travel Diary 4. The Archive of Epigraphy 5. Burdened with Gods 6. A Trade in Shadows Conclusion: The Grammar of Modernity Unpublished Source Bibliography Index

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This is easily the most serious and sophisticated study of Orientalism, going well beyond arguments about its relationship with imperialism to see how philology in particular came to represent a sustained anxiety about legibility and the very possibility of a theory of reading. Far from being an intellectually marginal or purely instrumental field of scholarship, Orientalism, Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World turns out to be the privileged site for an epistemological crisis in modern Europe. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford, UK *


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Henning Trüper is Researcher at Leibniz Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Typography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor of Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

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