Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures - Brossura

Said, Edward W.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679761276 ISBN 13: 9780679761273

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1996

Riassunto

Six lectures discuss what it means to be an intellectual and the role of intellectuals in society

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Bracing and heartfelt. . . . A fiercely assertive description of the intellectual as an oppositional figure." --The New Yorker

"Edward Said is the most distinguished cultural critic now writing in America." --Cornel West

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

L'autore:

Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.

He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679761276
• ISBN 13: 9780679761273
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144