نقد بنية الخطاب الاستشراقي عند إدوارد سعيد

Résumé

This study mainly aims at understanding the critical project of Edward Said as one of the most important and controversial attempts to criticize the Orientalist blog, notably in his books "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism", where he worked on dismantling the structure of the Orientalist Discourse.

What distinguishes Said's critique of Orientalism is that he tried to dismantle its structure with the same epistemological tools which this discourse relies on, far from the ideological trials and prejudices that usually accompanied every attempt in writing about this institution which is associated with the Western imperialist project.

With the help of the cognitive boom to human sciences and society, and the methodological tools which it provided in criticizing knowledge and benefiting from his academic position as a critic of English literature,

Said employed the idea of ​​discourse as it was articulated by Michel Foucault, as well as the insights which  were provided by the latter on the relationship of power and knowledge to criticize the entirety of Orientalist discourse. Said also benefited from Gramsci's writings on Cultural hegemony, especially from his book "Prison Notebooks".

So, how does the cognitive and the political merged  in the discourse of orientalism ? and what are the déterminants of this discourse?