Imagining the Middle East

by Hentsch, Thierry; Reed, Fred A.

• ISBN13: 9781895431131
• ISBN10: 1895431131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	vii
Foreword	ix
The Mythical Frontier	1	(22)
Appropriating the past	2	(4)
The Hellenic connection	6	(5)
The yearning for Roman unity	11	(3)
The war of the Roman succession	14	(2)
The mythical rupture	16	(7)
Symbiosis and Conflict	23	(26)
Terms of encounter	24	(5)
The Orient of the Crusaders	29	(7)
The image of heresy	36	(2)
Attitudes toward Arab science	38	(3)
A Mediterranean world	41	(8)
The Genesis of Division	49	(32)
Rift or Equilibrium in the mediterranean?	51	(1)
Ottoman threat and closure	51	(5)
Division in the Mediterranean; rift in the Atlantic	56	(3)
Awareness of Self and Images of the Other	59	(1)
Evolving views	59	(2)
Observing the Other	61	(2)
Machiavelli's political judgement	63	(2)
Postel's universal integration	65	(3)
Bodin and the sense of history	68	(13)
The Faraway Orient	81	(38)
The Classicist's Orient	83	(1)
Voyages to the Orient	84	(7)
On the proper use of the Orient	91	(3)
Leibniz's venture into the political	94	(5)
The Orient of Enlightenment	98	(1)
Islam and its founding people: a sociology of religion	99	(3)
Islam as cataclysm and fanaticism	102	(5)
The Orient of the despot	107	(12)
The Orient of Modernity	119	(40)
Whither the Orient	119	(1)
The sword and the pen	119	(4)
Probing the Orient: Volney's investigation	123	(7)
The Orient of Everyday Colonialism	130	(1)
Contempt and depreciation	130	(3)
Paternalism, appreciation	133	(3)
Self-criticism, re-appreciation	136	(2)
The Integrated Orient	138	(1)
The stanched source	138	(1)
Hegelian integration	139	(6)
``Hegel's children''	145	(2)
Oneiric integration	147	(12)
The Death of Sardanapalus	152	(7)
The Uneasy Orient	159	(52)
The Decline of the West	161	(2)
Spengler, last of the monologues	163	(4)
Toynbee: toward dialogue?	167	(4)
Kindred Souls	171	(1)
The impossible reconciliation	171	(7)
Acceptance by analogy, first case	178	(3)
Acceptance by analogy, second case	181	(6)
The return of the repressed	187	(4)
The Dialectic of Identity	190	(1)
The scientific approach to the Other	191	(4)
Cultural identity and modernity	195	(5)
By way of the the Other	200	(11)
The Deadly Frontier	211