I just want to point to the part you said it is not clear to you how the turn from a philologist approach to a social science approach is different if both are projecting the existing assumptions to the study of Orient. I have not even read the book (I started listening to your review as an opening to the book), but it is obvious to me that what Said is trying to point out is the methodological difference. You may or may not be closely familiar with the methodologies in both strands of science (although philology is considered a dead science today), however, how they treat knowledge is fundamentally different. The epistemology of it is not something I can explain in comment (and still, you may have the knowledge already) but I shall just point out that while Philology has Transcendentalist roots and mostly uses Hermeneutics, Social Science (at least claims to) have a Empirical and Positivist epistemology. This is a huge difference, since not only they use "preconceptions" differently, their claims about the "truth value" of their findings is totally different, and therefore the Social Science approach to Orientalism is significantly more pernicious.
Hi Dr.David! Once I discussed with my friend, what was the most obvious orientalism example in art/literature, she said, Miss Saigon! Orientalism should also include the view from the western world toward east Asia and Asian women. By the way, can you explain Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto someday? Love your video!
Hi, great work. I learned a lot from it.
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I just want to point to the part you said it is not clear to you how the turn from a philologist approach to a social science approach is different if both are projecting the existing assumptions to the study of Orient. I have not even read the book (I started listening to your review as an opening to the book), but it is obvious to me that what Said is trying to point out is the methodological difference. You may or may not be closely familiar with the methodologies in both strands of science (although philology is considered a dead science today), however, how they treat knowledge is fundamentally different. The epistemology of it is not something I can explain in comment (and still, you may have the knowledge already) but I shall just point out that while Philology has Transcendentalist roots and mostly uses Hermeneutics, Social Science (at least claims to) have a Empirical and Positivist epistemology. This is a huge difference, since not only they use "preconceptions" differently, their claims about the "truth value" of their findings is totally different, and therefore the Social Science approach to Orientalism is significantly more pernicious.
Hi Dr.David! Once I discussed with my friend, what was the most obvious orientalism example in art/literature, she said, Miss Saigon! Orientalism should also include the view from the western world toward east Asia and Asian women. By the way, can you explain Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto someday? Love your video!
He has a video on this: ua-cam.com/video/6dv8N1WYHkQ/v-deo.html