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03534aam a22004098i 4500 001 8EB2E238961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 180304s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017043048 020 $a 0231187629 020 $a 9780231187626 035 $a (OCoLC)1013720900 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a DS61.85 $b .H34 2018 082 00 $a 950 $2 23 100 1 $a Hallaq, Wael B., $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Restating Orientalism : $b a critique of modern knowledge / $c Wael B. Hallaq. 263 $a 1804 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 380 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Edward Said's Orientalism not only inaugurated a new and highly controversial arena of discourse but also set the terms of debate around knowledge, power, and imperialism since 1978, when the book first appeared. The substance of discussions remains extensively political, limited to the so-called problem of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism. One of the many critiques was that Said was too sweeping in his condemnation of Orientalists, leaving no analytical space for distinguishing degrees of difference between one scholar and another. Thus any scholar who depicts Islam negatively or too positively is an Orientalist, the former a bigot of some sort and the latter an exoticizer. Restating Orientalism offers an alternative account that accepts and transcends political thought and positioning while avoiding the totalization of authorial condemnation in Said's narrative. Hallaq reopens the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique, asking such questions as: What makes certain forms of knowledge useful to power, and what kind of cultural configurations exist in the world in which knowledge and power have virtually no relationship with each other? Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, the book extends the critique to other academic fields, tracing their involvement in colonialism and genocide to a seventeenth- and eighteenth- century structure of thought whose most salient characteristic was a type of domination anchored in sovereignty over life and death. Orientalism, Hallaq argues, is no more an exception to liberal and modern forms of knowledge than genocide in general was an exception in modernity, but rather is the truest representation of modern sovereign capabilities"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Putting Orientalism in its place -- Knowledge, power, and colonial sovereignty -- The subversive author -- Epistemic sovereignty and structural genocide -- Refashioning Orientalism, refashioning the subject. 600 10 $a Said, Edward W. $t Orientalism. 630 07 $a Orientalism (Said, Edward W.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01364887 650 0 $a Orientalism. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Theory of $x Methodology. 650 7 $a Knowledge, Theory of $x Methodology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00988199 650 7 $a Orientalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01048139 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hallaq, Wael B., 1955- author. $t Restating Orientalism $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 $z 9780231547383 $w (DLC) 2018024341 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707014505.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213012532.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8EB2E238961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search