Comments on: Rosen and Said http://savageminds.org/2007/01/27/rosen-and-said/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Yet another review of Irwin « Entertaining Research http://savageminds.org/2007/01/27/rosen-and-said/comment-page-1/#comment-48719 Yet another review of Irwin « Entertaining Research Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:12:48 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/27/rosen-and-said/#comment-48719 [...] Yet another review of Irwin Savage Minds refers to a review of Robert Irwin’s Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its discontents at Boston Review, and tells us how this review charts a middle course (Corrections mine): The thing that I like about Rosen’s review is that it charts a middle course between Said and Irwin. It is tempting to (diss and?) dismiss both of thee (these?) authors since there seems to be so little middle ground between not only their arguments, but their more general sensibilities. I like Rosen’s willingness to point out the way that Said’s shortcomings can be understood as part of a larger ‘unfinished’ project rather than as errors that doom the enterprise from the start. Above all, it ends by shifting the discussion away from the narcissistic examination of the careers of Western scholars and back to the issue at hand—what must be done for Standard Average European scholars to understand the Standard Average Muslim? [...] [...] Yet another review of Irwin Savage Minds refers to a review of Robert Irwin’s Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its discontents at Boston Review, and tells us how this review charts a middle course (Corrections mine): The thing that I like about Rosen’s review is that it charts a middle course between Said and Irwin. It is tempting to (diss and?) dismiss both of thee (these?) authors since there seems to be so little middle ground between not only their arguments, but their more general sensibilities. I like Rosen’s willingness to point out the way that Said’s shortcomings can be understood as part of a larger ‘unfinished’ project rather than as errors that doom the enterprise from the start. Above all, it ends by shifting the discussion away from the narcissistic examination of the careers of Western scholars and back to the issue at hand—what must be done for Standard Average European scholars to understand the Standard Average Muslim? [...]

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