The Mightier Pen? Edward Said and the Double Standards of Inside-out Colonialism
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"The Mightier Pen? Edward Said and the Double Standards of Inside-out Colonialism " is an essay by Ernest Gellner, a review of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism. Gellner said that Said's contention of Western domination of the Eastern world for more than 2,000 years was unsupportable, because, until the late 17th century, the Ottoman Empire (1299–1923) was a realistic military, cultural, and religious threat to (Western) Europe.
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- "There is Edward Said, who provided the rationale, not so much for any one nationalism (not even the one with which he identifies himself), as an omnibus charter for all nationalisms struggling against imperialism (chapter 12). Where Benda repudiated all particularistic totem poles, national or imperial, in the name of a universalist objective truth (the foundations of which he failed to work out), Said's anti-imperialism invokes a similarly ill-founded social subjectivism: truth is granted to those born into the right camp, plus those who politically choose to support them, but it is derisively denied to those linked to empires." --Encounters with Nationalism, pp. 159-69
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