El pre-orientalisme a Europa: Un estat de la questió.

Abstract

If defining «Orientalism» could become a complicated matter, it increases when we embark on the paths of Pre-orientalism. Fifty years ago, trying to clean the Western view of alterity prejudices, Edward W. Said identified and codified, and then decomposed and diluted, the stereotypes surrounding the Islam, both apparently inseparable even though they had been generated and disseminated during Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. However, by going back before this Age, we’re entering inside a more complex horizon. Instead of a dialogue-relationship-opposition between East and West, with religious element impregnated with ideological clichés as a backdrop, the purpose since the end of the Fifteenth century was to search for Western origins in the Preclassical Civilizations with Eastern roots. A search that, in fact, involved accepting that the West was due to the East. All in all, the current Status of Labor Issues is now so appropriate, on the one hand, because of permanent contrast between East and West, which too often flourishes with notable intensity, and even it to be settled in the midst of the war scenario; on the other, because this article provides a different vision of what should understand by «Pre-Orientalism».