Edward Said : criticism and society
Abdirahman A. Hussein
Bok · Engelsk · 2002
| Omfang | ix, 339 sider
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| Opplysninger | A Technique of Trouble: Dialectical Subversion and Archaeo-genealogy -- Dismantling Ideological Walls -- Debating with Knowledge, Wrestling with History -- The Myth of "Postcolonial" Theory: Intellectuals, Collusion, and Opposition -- Is an Affiliated Human Community Possible? -- Reflexivity and Self-creation in Said and Conrad -- The Artistic Self in Conditions of Extremity -- Dialectical Agonism in Conrad and Said: The "Either/Or" Imperative -- Normativity as Negativity -- Conrad and the Imperialism of Ideas -- The Ego Historicized: Space-Time as Sedimented Gestalts -- Beginnings and Authority: Ideology, Critique, and Community (I) -- A Theoretical Intervention -- The Paradox of Modernity -- The Destruction of Foundations: Beginnings in the Absence of Origins -- Rationality and Its Discontents: The Case Against Idealism and Empiricism -- Reason as Intentionality: Towards an Experimental Rationality -- Ideological Currency Versus Critical Knowledge -- Language as Event: The Dynamics of Textuality -- Beginnings and Authority: Ideology, Critique, and Community (II) -- Narrativity and the Natural Order: The Fate of the Classical Novel -- The High Drama of Modernism: Textual Production and the Dilemmas of Modernity -- The Grand Gesture of Structuralism: Much Ado About Nothing -- Vico and Foucault: The "Space" Between Philosophy, Language, and History -- The Power of Discourse: Foucault on Truth, Knowledge, History -- Vico's Poetic History: Humanity as Autodidact -- The Struggle for the World: Culture, Hegemony, and Intellectuals.. - Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that underneath Said’s carefully constructed eclecticism there is a global method in his work. Taking Beginnings as the key text Hussein asserts that the discontinuity of the Palestinian experience informs Said's entire oeuvre but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis. Hussein argues that this informs Said’s approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Lukács, Williams, Gramsci and Adorno.
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| Emner | Said, Edward W. , 1935-2003
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| ISBN | 185984670X
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