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Results and Problems of the Study of Oriental Despotism by Karl A. Wittfogel is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Results and Problems of the Study of Oriental Despotism about?
Periodic gatherings of Orientalists are fully meaningful only when they serve as forums for the discussion of important developments in the major fields of their professional concern: Oriental languages, literature and ideas, history and institutions. Having worked for decades in the latter fields with China as a starting point and the comparison of institutions as a central target, I would like to discuss here some of the problems connected with the power structure that Montesquieu, the men of the Enlightenment, and Marx and Engels called “Oriental despotism.” For a variety of reasons, there has been a growing interest in the institutional conditions of the “Orient.” Hence any significant change in the interpretation of these conditions is bound to affect a growing number of Orientalists—and of social scientists who, although not Orientalists, deal with Oriental institutions.
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- Author
- Karl A. Wittfogel
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences