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Representations Of The Intellectual (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books Ed)
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Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here
examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these
six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith
Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can
best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and
of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger
community concerns. Said suggests a recasting of the intellectual's
vision to resist the lures of power, money, and specialization. in
these powerful pieces, Said eloquently illustrates his arguments by
drawing on such writers as Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Regis
Debray, Julien Benda, and Adorno, and by discussing current events
and celebrated figures in the world of science and politics: Robert
Oppenheimer, Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle, Vietnam, and the Gulf
War. Said sees the modern intellectual as an editor, journalist,
academic, or political adviser - in other words, a highly
specialized professional - who has moved from a position of
independence to an alliance with powerful institutional
organizations. He concludes that it is the exile-immigrant, the
expatriate, and the amateur who must uphold the traditional role of
the intellectual as the voice of integrity and courage, able to
speak out against those in power.
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