Siyaset, Diplomasi ve Edebi-Fikri Akımlar Üzerinde Yükselen Bir Alan Olarak XIX. Yüzyıl Alman Oryantalizmi
Century German Orientalism: A Field Built on Politics, Diplomacy and Literary-Intellectual Movements

Summary/Abstract: The 19th century of German orientalism is seen as a painful process of formation and transition, and, on the other hand, as a multicolored mosaic made of stones of different origins. This orientalism which was ignored by Edward Said in his Thesis of Orientalism, has a long tradition that cannot be explained in terms of colonial goals. There used to be many channels feeding the growing interest in this field by the 19th century. This study considers that the dramatic rise of German orientalism in the 19th century is the result of a long process. Wars, political conflicts, diplomatic relations, literary and intellectual movements such as romanticism and German idealism; the first amateur orientalists who opened the doors to the romantics, the first academics who followed the paths paved by the romantics; and, finally, the professional studies developed in a philological-historical dilemma at the universities – all the above are seen as the steps of this process. Taking into consideration the whole range of factors, the main thesis of this study is a special character of German orientalism that proceeds in its flow and cannot be understood within the dominant discourse.

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