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Book SynopsisHenning Trüper is Researcher at Leibniz Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany. He is the author of
Typography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor of
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
Trade ReviewThis is easily the most serious and sophisticated study of Orientalism, going well beyond arguments about its relationship with imperialism to see how philology in particular came to represent a sustained anxiety about legibility and the very possibility of a theory of reading. Far from being an intellectually marginal or purely instrumental field of scholarship,
Orientalism, Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World turns out to be the privileged site for an epistemological crisis in modern Europe. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: History in Meaning 1. After Philology, a Wild Goose Chase 2. The Suicide of Naffa' wad 'Etmân 3. The Travel Diary 4. The Archive of Epigraphy 5. Burdened with Gods 6. A Trade in Shadows Conclusion: The Grammar of Modernity Unpublished Source Bibliography Index
