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- Book Title
- Sultan's Court : European Fantasies of the East
- Publication Name
- The Sultan's Court
- Title
- The Sultan's Court
- Subtitle
- European Fantasies of the East
- Translator
- Liz Heron
- Contributor
- Liz Heron (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1859841228
- EAN
- 9781859841228
- ISBN
- 9781859841228
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, International Relations / General, Customs & Traditions
- Release Date
- 17/08/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.1 Oz
- Series
- Wo Es War
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Number of Pages
- 258 Pages
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Edward Said.s Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field which appeared in France only a year later. Alain Grosrichard.s The Sultan.s Court is a fascinating and careful deconstruction of Western accounts of .Oriental despotism. in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire and the supposedly enigmatic and opaque structure of the despot.s power and his court of viziers, janissaries, mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs and countless wives. Drawing on the writings of travelers and philosophers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire, Grosrichard goes further than merely cataloguing their intense fascination with the vortex of capriciousness, violence, cruelty, lust, sexual perversion and slavery which they perceived in the seraglio. Deftly and subtly using a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, he describes the process as one in which these leading Enlightenment figures were constructing a fantasmatic Other to counterpose to their project of a rationally based society. The Sultan.s Court seeks not to refute the misconceptions but rather to expose the nature of the fantasy and what it can reveal about modern political thought and power relations more generally.
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Verso Books
ISBN-10
1859841228
ISBN-13
9781859841228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
676191
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sultan's Court : European Fantasies of the East
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, International Relations / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
1998
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
258 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
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Jc381.G7613 1998
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"What Said's Orientalism achieves in breadth, The Sultan's Court provides in depth: the precise outline-the elementary formula-of the sexual-political fantasy of 'Oriental Despotism' which structures our perception of the Muslim countries from the seventeenth century to our own times, and on to which Western ideology projects its own inconsistencies and repressed traumas. Combining French elegance and clarity of style with the highest conceptual stringency, this immensely readable book demonstrates the extraordinary potential of Lacanian pyschoanalysis for social analysis. A classic of the theory of ideology, to be ranged with the greatest achievements of Adorno, Foucault or Jameson!"-Slavoj _i_ek, "What Said's Orientalism achieves in breadth, The Sultan's Court provides in depth: the precise outline-the elementary formula-of the sexual-political fantasy of 'Oriental Despotism' which structures our perception of the Muslim countries from the seventeenth century to our own times, and on to which Western ideology projects its own inconsistencies and repressed traumas. Combining French elegance and clarity of style with the highest conceptual stringency, this immensely readable book demonstrates the extraordinary potential of Lacanian pyschoanalysis for social analysis. A classic of the theory of ideology, to be ranged with the greatest achievements of Adorno, Foucault or Jameson!"-Slavoj Zizek
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-029248
Dewey Decimal
956/.015
Series
Wo ES War Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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