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Edward Said is the GOAT but he also needs to stop throwing entire paragraphs of untranslated French at me, because when he does, I am reminded that I am the dumbest person to ever attempt reading this book

“Orientalists are neither interested in nor capable of discussing individuals; instead artificial entities, […]”

“‘Man’, he says at the end of the same essay, ‘belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself before all, since before all he is a free being and a moral one.’ Man was free and moral, but enchained by race, history, and science as Renan saw them, conditions imposed by the scholar on man.”
Mäh -> Kultur als die zweite Natur des Menschen (Plessner), Intern. v. Fremdzwängen (Elias)

“Thus for Renan Semitic is a phenomenon of arrested development in comparison with the mature languages and cultures of the Indo-European group, and even with the other Semitic Oriental languages.”

“Semitic”

Connection zur mythischen in illo tempore (oder so) bei Eliade

“Out of this encounter, a new dogma or god is born, but Quinet's point is that both East and West fulfill their destinies and confirm their identities in the encounter.”