One testimony to the impact of Edward Said's book Orientalism is that almost three decades after its publication, people are still arguing with its main premise.
This is a review of a new book on orientalism, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin --a book whose "argumentative thrust... is to unmask Said’s Orientalism as a perverted muddle of ‘malignant charlatanry’'"
What I don't understand is why can't they criticize Said without calling him names?
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