...Oriental: "In a quite constant way. Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible posiltonal superiority, which puts the Westerner in a whole series...relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the upper hand."i ' Within Orientalism the Oriental object can never represent itself, but is essentialized...

...potential constitutes power geometries defined by a 'flexible positional superiority' for the customer, 'which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible...relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the upper hand' (Said 1978: 7). Serving on the counter involves handling far more than a food for money...

...historically coherent in a way others are not. This assumed superiority creates what Said (1987:7) calls a "flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...a whole series of possible relationships with the [other] without ever losing him the relative upper hand". Given the structural interaction of the different...

...gleichzeitig andere Kulturen und Lebensweisen als minderwertig zu degradieren: In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westener in a whole 53 Etwas später im Text bezeichnet Said die Entwicklung von Orient und Okzident...

...independent, or more skeptical, thinker might have had different views on the matter. In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...ascendancy from the late Renaissance to the present? The scientist, the scholar, the missionary, the trader, or the soldier was in, or thought about, the...

...which vision, knowledge and power depend upon position, as Said explains: In quite a constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand . . . The scientist, the scholar, the missionary, the trader, or the soldier was in, or thought about...

...differ among Orientalist discourses, such discourses share a common strategy: "In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...relationships with the Orient without ever losing the upper hand" (7). Despite their signifi142 cant differences, Said concludes, Orientalist discourses...

...superiority by placing Hindus in a permanent state of infancy. As Said remarks, "In a quite constant way, orientalism depends for its strategy' on this flexible...relationships with the Orient without ever losing him ever the relative upper hand" (1985: 7). Miiller takes for granted the superiority of the West in its...

...Orient is a relationship of "power, of domination, of varying degrees of complex hegemony." Further, "Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...relationships with the Orient without ever losing the relative upper hand." Said views "Orientalism as a dynamic exchange between individual authors...

...'Orient' and 'Occident' therefore, it is essential to recognize that, as signifiers, each is part of a 'positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand' (Said, 1995, p. 7). We can infer then that Said's remarks on the nominalism and Eurocentrism of Foucault's...