{"product_id":"orientalism-philology-and-the-illegibility-of-the-modern-world-9781350246782","title":"Orientalism Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenning Trüper\u003c\/b\u003e is Researcher at Leibniz Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTypography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHistorical Teleologies in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eOrientalism, Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e turns out to be the privileged site for an epistemological crisis in modern Europe. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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 A Trade in Shadows Conclusion: The Grammar of Modernity Unpublished Source Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084837744983,"sku":"9781350246782","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350246782.jpg?v=1762207310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/orientalism-philology-and-the-illegibility-of-the-modern-world-9781350246782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}