Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures Paperback
Synopsis:
In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. It is, he argues, the intellectual's role to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Interweaving literature, history and philosophy, Said describes and demonstrates how the intellectual must remain a dissenter, never putting solidarity before criticism, and speak from the margins for both the people and the issues which are routinely forgotten or ignored.
About the Author
Edward Saïd, Ph.D.,, was a critically acclaimed American writer and professor of Palestinian origin. He was born on November 1, 1935 and died on September 25, 2003. He had a Palestinian Protestant mother and a wealthy Palestinian-American Catholic father. He grew up in a Jerusalem that was under British mandate. The Palestinian-American intellectual to be would spend his life investigating the in the end imaginary line that divides the East and the West.
-The Art of Living and Impermanence
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