by Edward W. Said · DEBATE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483067260
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In 'Representations of the Intellectual', Edward W. Said analyzes the importance of ethical vision and the struggle against the arbitrariness of power by intellectuals. Said starts from the classical idea of the intellectual as a disturber of the 'status quo', a demystifier forced to the solitude of judgment in the face of the manipulation of the media. In this book, Said defends independence of criteria as the main mission of the intellectual, a position that often leads to marginalization or exile. This book is a compilation of six masterful lectures from the Reith cycle, which Bertrand Russell began in 1948.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
