Disarming words [[electronic resource] ] : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / / Shaden M. Tageldin |
Autore | Tageldin Shaden M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | FlashPoints |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 19th century
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 20th century Postcolonialism - Egypt Comparative literature - Arabic and English Comparative literature - English Language and languages in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century egypt
19th century europe arab and muslim british occupation of egypt colonial history colonized egyptians cultural imperialism edward said egyptian empire egyptian history europe and egypt european colonialism european colonization european empire european orientalism frantz fanon french occupation of egypt hasan al-attar imperialism and nationalism imperialism jacques derrida napoleon postcolonial egypt postructuralist theorists translational seduction walter benjamin |
ISBN |
1-283-27834-0
9786613278340 0-520-95004-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture. Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- 1. The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- 2. The Dismantling I: Al-'Attār's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- 3. Suspect Kinships: Al-Tahtāwī and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- 4. Surrogate Seed, World-Tree: Mubārak, al-Sibā'ī, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- 5. Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign: Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- 6. English Lessons: The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda. History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781507803321 |
Tageldin Shaden M
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Downcast eyes [[electronic resource] ] : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / / Martin Jay |
Autore | Jay Martin <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (648 p.) |
Disciplina | 194 |
Soggetto topico |
Vision
Cognition and culture Philosophy, French - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
5 senses academic criticism cultural history cultural studies culture descartes disability studies emmanuel levinas enlightenment five senses france french enlightenment global guy debord jacques derrida jacques lacan jean paul sartre louis althusser luce irigaray maurice merleau ponty michel foucault modernity oppression plato political politics scholarly seeing sight social history social studies surveillance theory vision impaired vision western culture western world |
ISBN |
1-283-64623-4
0-520-91538-0 0-585-20046-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Noblest of the Senses: Vision from Plato to Descartes -- 2.Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment -- 3. The Crisis of the Ancien Scopic Regime: From the Impressionists to Bergson -- 4. The Disenchantment of the Eye: Bataille and the Surrealists -- 5. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight -- 6. Lacan, Althusser, and the Specular Subject of Ideology -- 7. From the Empire of the Gaze to the Society of the Spectacle: Foucault and Debord -- 8. The Camera as Memento Mori: Barthes, Metz, and the Cahiers du Cinema -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- 10. The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard -- Conclusion -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778858403321 |
Jay Martin <1944->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993 | ||
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