{"product_id":"represantions-fo-the-intellectual","title":"Represantions fo the Intellectual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreface by Isabella Hammad\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/strong\u003e (1935–2003) was one of the world’s most influential literary and cultural critics. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, he was the author of twenty-two books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and Out of Place. He was also a music critic, opera scholar, pianist and the most eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaree Makdisi\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches English literature at UCLA. His most recent book is Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This reissue of The Question of Palestine only lends more weight and value to Edward Said’s work, to his vision and analysis, to the enduring need for his core principles of justice and empathy. Principles that have perhaps never been as severely tested as they are today. Passionate and patient, the book displays all the features that made Said a great thinker and a powerful advocate, whose absence continues to be felt.’ — Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘In this seminal text, Edward W. Said stridently diagnoses western hypocrisy and makes the case for Palestinian liberation, paving the way for so many thinkers who came after him. I wish it were not so, but The Question of Palestine is just as relevant now as it was in 1979.’ — Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Edward Said is among the truly important intellectuals of our century.’ — Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘When Edward Said died in September 2003, after a decade-long battle against leukemia, he was probably the best-known intellectual in the world…. Over three decades, virtually single-handedly, he wedged open a conversation in America about Israel, Palestine and the Palestinians. In so doing he performed an inestimable public service at considerable personal risk.’ — Tony Judt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘[A]rguably New York’s most famous public intellectual after Hannah Arendt and Susan Sontag, and America’s most prominent advocate for Palestinian rights.’ — Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235400077659,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/products\/represantions-fo-the-intellectual","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}