Orientalism

sion of the divine wisdom and power. Science was traditionally practical in serving the cause of religion; but a revolutionary feature of the new science was the additional pragmatic goal of bettering everyday life here and now through applied science."
             Kissinger used the concepts of pre-Newtonian and post-Newtonian to divide the world into two neat categories. One of these concepts is the developed west which "is deeply committed to the notion that the real world is external to the observer, that knowledge consists of recording and classifying data-the more accurately the better."(Said, 47) The other is the developing world, which includes much of Latin America, Indochina, and others. Here he claims "empirical reality has a much different significance for many of the new countries than for the West because in a
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