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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

Said, Edward W.

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Philosophy

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0679761276
ISBN13: 9780679761273
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 2 1996
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual.

Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist. . . . He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area. --Washington Post Book World

Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is to speak the truth to power even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor Adorno, Robert Oppenheimer and Henry Kissinger, Vietnam and the Gulf War, Said explores the implications of this idea and shows what happens when intellectuals succumb to the lures of money, power, or specialization.

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