Orientalism

오리엔탈리즘
The Orient and the West
 “On a visit to Beirut during the terrible civil war of 1975-19
76 a French journalist wrote regretfully of the gutted down
town area that “it had once seemed to belong to . . . the O
rient of Chateaubriand and Nerval.”

 Keywords

 - the Orient
 - Chateaubriand and Nerval
 “The Orient was almost a european invention, and had bee
n since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunti
ng memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. No
w it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time
was over. Perhaps it seemed irrelevant that Orientalists th
emselves had something at stake in the process, that even
in the time of Chateaubriand and Nerval Orientalists had li
ved there, and that now it was they who were suffering; t
he main thing for the european visitor was a european rep
resentation of the Orient and its contemporary fate, both o
f which had a privileged communal significance for the jour
nalist and his French readers. . . .”
 Meaning of european representation of the Orient

 Two senses of representation

1. Political Sense : (ex) Representative

2. Aesthetic Sense : (ex) Artistic Representation

Quotation
 “The Orient is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the pl
ace of europe’s greatest and richest and oldest colonies, th
e source of its civilizations and languages, its cultural cont
estant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images
of the Other. In addition, the Orient had helped to define e
urope (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, persona
lity, experience. Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginati
ve. The Orient is an integral part of European material civil
ization and culture. Orientalism expresses and represents t
hat part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of disc
ourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship
s, imagery, doctrines, even colonial bureaucracies and colo
nial styles.”
 How europe is constructed?

 - History

 - Political ideology

 - Science and Technology

 - Aesthetics