Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public IntellectualThis collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre. Exciting new scholarship highlights the ways in which humanities in the twenty-first century can engage with Said's legacy, which includes his imbrications of culture and imperialism, his cosmopolitan critique of the idea of 'clash of civilisations', and his belief that the intellectual needs to maintain 'intellectual performances' on many fronts. The individual chapters achieve a sense of balance between the two poles of Said's persona: the brilliant and intimidating literary and music critic who invested deeply in an inclusive and democratic vision of humanism and the outspoken public intellectual who kept alive the truth of Palestine and the dangers of a settler colonial ethos. |
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Contents
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Edward Said and the style of the public intellectual | 21 |
Edward Said and the sociology of intellectuals | 36 |
Blogging Said Public intellectuals in the Internet age | 57 |
Exile and representation Edward Said as public intellectual | 75 |
Reluctant prophets and gadfly laureates The Australian writer as public intellectual | 96 |
The worldliness of intimacy | 121 |
Edward Saids unhoused philological humanism | 152 |
Edward Said and Theodor Adorno The musician as public intellectual | 205 |
Said Grainger and the ethics of polyphony | 221 |
Orientalism and mass market romance novels in the twentieth century | 241 |
The question of Europe Said and Derrida | 263 |
Interacting imaginaries in Israel and the United States | 293 |
Palestine Project Europe and the unmaking of the new Jew In memory of Edward W Said | 313 |
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Edward Said world literature and global comparatism | 176 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual |
| Editors | Debjani Ganguly, Ned Curthoys |
| Publisher | Academic Monographs, 2015 |
| ISBN | 0522853579, 9780522853575 |
| Length | 344 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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