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The sultan's court :

(Number (ISBN

1859841228

(Number (ISBN

1859848168

(Number (ISBN

9781859841228

(Number (ISBN

9781859848166

Title Proper

The sultan's court :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

European fantasies of the East /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alain Grosrichard ; translated by Liz Heron ; with an introduction by Mladen Dolar.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Verso,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxvii, 222 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Wo es war

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-222).

Text of Note

Introduction: The Subject Supposed to Enjoy / Mladen Dolar -- pt. I.A Genealogy of the Monster. 1. The Unnameable Threat. 2. The Concept of a Fantasy -- pt. II In Orient Desert ... 3. The Gaze and the Letter. 4. The Machine. 5. The Sword and the Book. 6. Mahomet Beside Himself -- pt. III The Shadow of the Seraglio. 7. The Anatomy of the Seraglio. 8. The Guardian of the Thresholds. 9. The Other Scene -- Wo es war.

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This book is a survey of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire and the supposedly enigmatic structure of the despot's court - the seraglio - with its viziers, janissaries, mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs and countless wives. Drawing on the writings of travellers and philosophers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire, the author goes further than cataloguing their fascination with the vortex of capriciousness, violence, cruelty, lust, sexual perversion and slavery which they perceived in the seraglio. Using a Lacanian psychoanalytical framework, he describes the process as one in which these leading Enlightenment figures were constructing a fantastic Other to counterpose their project of a rationally based society. He seeks not to refute the misconceptions but rather explore the nature of the fantasy and what it can reveal about modern political thought and power relations more generally. --Publisher.

Title

Sultan's court.

Title

Sultan's court.

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Structure du sérail.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Despotism-- Turkey-- Public opinion.

East and West.

Courts and courtiers-- Public opinion.

Despotie

Despotism-- Public opinion.

East and West.

Fictie.

Fiktion

Public opinion, Western.

Tirannie.

Turkey, Court and courtiers, Public opinion.

Turkey, Foreign public opinion, Western.

Turkey, History, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Europa

Europa.

Orient

Turkey.

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Grosrichard, Alain,1941-

Date of Transaction

20200823062403.0

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[Book]

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