Edward Said : the legacy of a public intellectual / edited by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curthoys, Ned, editor.

Ganguly, Debjani, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W--Criticism and interpretation.

Said, Edward W.

Critics--United States--20th century.

Critics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre. Exciting new scholarship highlights the ways in which humanities in the twenty-first century can engage with Said's legacy, which includes his imbrications of culture and imperialism, his cosmopolitan critique of the idea of 'clash of civilisations', and his belief that the intellectual needs to maintain 'intellectual performances' on many fronts. The individual chapters achieve a sense of balance between the two poles of Said's persona: the brilliant and intimidating literary and music critic who invested deeply in an inclusive and democratic vision of humanism and the outspoken public intellectual who kept alive the truth of Palestine and the dangers of a settler colonial ethos.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Representing public intellectuals

1 Edward Said and the style of the public intellectual

2 Edward Said and the sociology of intellectuals

3 Blogging Said: Public intellectuals in the Internet age

4 Exile and representation: Edward Said as public intellectual

5 Reluctant prophets and gadfly laureates: The Australian writer as public intellectual

Humanism as worldly affiliation

6 The worldliness of intimacy

7 Edward Said's unhoused philological humanism

8 Edward Said, world literature and global comparatism

Contrapuntal rhythms: Music as critical metaphor

9 Edward Said and Theodor Adorno: The musician as public intellectual

10 Said, Grainger and the ethics of polyphony

Europe, orientalism and popular culture

11 Orientalism and mass market romance novels in the twentieth century

12 The question of Europe: Said and Derrida

Palestine and settler-colonial contexts

13 Interacting imaginaries in Israel and the United States

14 Palestine, Project Europe and the (un-)making of the new Jew: In memory of Edward W. Said

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522853575

0522853579

OCLC:

1499719692