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The document discusses how the field of orientalism has undergone a crisis since 1945. Previously, orientalism studied foreign cultures and peoples as objects, but they are now sovereign subjects who have escaped being merely the terrain or objects of study. While the human and social sciences also need alteration and transformation, no clear crisis in those fields can yet be characterized or perceived for the time being.
The document discusses how the field of orientalism has undergone a crisis since 1945. Previously, orientalism studied foreign cultures and peoples as objects, but they are now sovereign subjects who have escaped being merely the terrain or objects of study. While the human and social sciences also need alteration and transformation, no clear crisis in those fields can yet be characterized or perceived for the time being.
The document discusses how the field of orientalism has undergone a crisis since 1945. Previously, orientalism studied foreign cultures and peoples as objects, but they are now sovereign subjects who have escaped being merely the terrain or objects of study. While the human and social sciences also need alteration and transformation, no clear crisis in those fields can yet be characterized or perceived for the time being.
For the timebeing, the crisis strikes at the heart of orientalism
: since 1945, it has been not only the &dquo;terrain&dquo; that
has escaped it, but also the &dquo;men,&dquo; until yesterday the &dquo;object&dquo; of study, and, henceforth, sovereign &dquo;subjects.&dquo; The domain of human and social sciences are also proving to have need of an alteration, an extension, transformation a
which would not be just narrowed to the field; but for the time being at least no characterized crisis may be perceived.
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