Focuses on the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

PrefaceIntroduction(Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and Intercultural DialogueFriedrich Schlegel's Writings on India: Reimagining Germany as Europe's True Oriental SelfGermany's Local OrientalismsTales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: Figurations of the Oriental in the German-Speaking WorldM. C. Sprengel's Writings on India: A Disenchanted and Forgotten Orientalism of the Late Eighteenth CenturyOccident and Orient in Narratives of Exile: The Case of Willy Haas's Indian Exile WritingsDistant Neighbors: Uses of Orientalism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian EmpireModes of Orientalism in Hungarian Letters and Learning of the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesWhere the Orient Ends? Orientalism and Its Function for Imperial Rule in the Russian EmpireNoncolonial Orientalism? Czech Travel Writing on Africa and Asia around 1918Oriental Sexuality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century TraveloguesNotes on the ContributorsIndex