Development as Dominance (A search into Edward Saeed's Views)

The logic of accumulation and increasing tendency towards profit forms the bases of capitalist productivity system. During the colonial moves of western states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with the benevolent moto of "civilizing goal", also empirical and humanitarian scientists through the creation and reproduction of an inferior ' the other' provided the cultural and psychological background of the western dominance on the other communities. This article studies on the concept of development in the works of Edward Saeed, with special emphasis on his two books: Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism. The main issue is how the concept of development is reflected in the works and views of Edward Saeed. The methodology used is documentary and qualitative content analysis. Edward Saeed is among the first main post-colonial intellectuals who have criticized cultural hegemony of colonization and capitalism as ' deviating inference' of development and civilization. With analyzing the content of traveler's books, historiography, novels and written works of orientalists, he has made apparent their role in extolling the west's superior identity and holding in contempt the east's inferior identity; this is the main result of this paper.