Resumen de Edward W. Said (1935 – 2003) or the Critic towards the Orient: The Art of Refurbishing the Conflict through Cultural Rhetoric
Eugenio Enrique Cortés Ramírez, Juan Carlos Gómez Alonso
Edward W. Said established that “Orientalism is, and does not simply represent, a considerable dimension of modern politicalintellectual culture, and as such has less to do with the Orient than it does with «our» world”. Because Orientalism is in principle a political and cultural fact, so it can be that there is a wide bibliographic gap around it. In fact, Orientalism is not a considerable dimension of a modern culture in its political and cultural aspect, and in this sense it would have less to do with the East than with the West. But despite being a fact of both political and cultural nature, it is the result as a Critic foresees a Conflict through Cultural Rhetoric, considering that the East follows certain recognition paradigms that grant it the degree of intellectual category and academic discipline. Hence we could talk about factors of textuality and intertextuality. Therefore, it is about the distribution of a geopolitical aspect in Aesthetics, Cultural Rhetoric and in its texts, both philological, historical, sociological and economic. It is not a mere political issue contemplated in a passive way in the culture, the academic world or its institutions. Nor is it a wide-ranging and scattered collection of articles and texts about the East, Power, Politics, Culture and Critics. This is the art of refurbishing the Orient through the Cultural Rhetoric of the Conflict.
