The Essential Fallacy of Europe
Keywords:
Edward Said, Friedrich Nietzsche, Orientalism, Discourse TheoryAbstract
This essay examines Post Colonial theorist Edward Said's use of Nietzschian philosophy as a starting point for the establishment of a discourse based largely on European writings about "the Orient." Along with questioning the thoroughness of Said's Nietzschian methodologies, this essay argues that continued use of the terms "Europe" and "Europeans" be reexamined in Post Colonial conversations due to these term's inaccurate representation of Europe as continent and cultural expression that is altogether removed from Asia and "the Orient."References
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Daniel Breazeale. Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870's. Amherst, NY: Humanity, 1999.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Raymond Geuss, and Ronald Speirs. The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Porter, Dennis. "Orientalism and Its Problems." Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: a Reader. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
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2014-01-26
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