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For Lust of Knowing
''For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies'', published in the United States under the title ''Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents'', is a 2006 non-fiction book by British historian Robert Irwin. The book is both a history of the academic discipline of Orientalism and an attack on Edward Said's 1978 book ''Orientalism'', which he calls "malignant charlatanry, in which it is hard to distinguish honest mistakes from willful misrepresentations." The title of the British version of the book comes from the poem "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker.
==Synopsis==
While ''For Lust of Knowing'' is a riposte to Said's ''Orientalism'', much of the book is taken up with a general history of Orientalism as an academic discipline. Unlike Said's work, it does not examine fiction, painting or other art forms.〔''For Lust of Knowing'' pp.8〕 It focuses mainly in the work of British, French and German Orientalists and contrasts their different approaches and occasional idiosyncrasies. When Irwin does mention Said, it is usually to point out an error or inconsistency in Said's analysis. For example, one of the few Orientalists Said professes to admire is Louis Massignon. Irwin points out that Said "fail() to note Massignon's anti-Semitism" and "his decidedly patronising attitude to Arabs", as well as Massignon's debt to Ernest Renan, one of the villains of ''Orientalism''.〔''For Lust of Knowing'' pp.297〕
In the chapter that specifically focuses on Said's ''Orientalism'', Irwin highlights Said's inconsistent melding of the work of Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramsci.〔''For Lust of Knowing'' pp.289-90〕
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