An analysis of the problems of genesis and the early history of Latvian Orientalism. Investigation of factors of external intellectual and cultural influence. The main vectors of the growth of Orientalist images in the longhair discourse of Latvia.
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THE EXTERNAL INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES AND PROBLEMS OF THE GENESIS OF LATVIAN NATIONAL ORIENTALISM Introductory remarks. Orientalism in the 19th and 20th centuries was among attempts of Western intellectuals to collect facts about Orient, organise them in the scattered information and transform them into one of the chapters of European humanities. Orientalism, informally, formally, objectively, repeatedly was described, invented, imagined, convicted, damned, justified, and revised in the academic literature and political criticism [13, 14, 19; 15; 16]. The dominance of positivist tendencies among Western authors and their careful fixation, systematisation and classification of the facts that were located in history, linguistics, and ethnography formed their collective representations about Orient and transformed them into a single and honourable science with its object and subject. The 19th century in European history was the era of rapid formation, dynamic emergence, and development of national schools in Orie