
Edward Said’s ”Orientalism” (Part 2/3)
Theory & Philosophy
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Said's Deconstruction of Indo-European Languages
Said: Rinin treated this as a discovery of the difference between Indo-European languages and Semitic ones. But for Said's clever in this way, he says that it's kind of ironic that Rinin needed to come in and say that these languages are organic. It essentially reveals their very resistance to these characteristics. Even the culture in a cult organic is also a creature being created by the philologist.
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