Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. "Orientalism" certainly contri

During the 19th century and the first part of the 20th German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in what we now call Orientalism. Drawing upon a

A fresh examination of the role of the East in the German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism. German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of