Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Henning Trüper
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Henning Trüper
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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).