Le savoir de l’autre ? Les intellectuels arabes de l’université parisienne (1955-1980): une relecture de l’orientalisme français
The paper outlines a sociological analysis of a scientific Diaspora. It focuses on the Arab intellectuals who have been working in Paris since the middle of the 50’s and shows how this specific position impinged on their reading of the French Orientalist tradition. Doing so the article questions Sai...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2009-07-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/6283 |
| Summary: | The paper outlines a sociological analysis of a scientific Diaspora. It focuses on the Arab intellectuals who have been working in Paris since the middle of the 50’s and shows how this specific position impinged on their reading of the French Orientalist tradition. Doing so the article questions Said’s Orientalism and its idea of a Western way of understanding (and creating) the East. Instead, it argues that the ways Arab intellectuals engaged with the West’s understanding of their culture is far more complex and cannot be understood merely in terms of cultural identity. Instead, it argues that one has to scrutinize the positions held by the Arab intellectuals inside the French academic field to fully understand how they came to read and criticize the tenets of the classical Orientalism. |
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| ISSN: | 0997-1327 2105-2271 |