'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf
Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive
character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources
and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the
first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most
controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In
Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial
studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an
erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender, and
eloquent advocate of literature's dramatic effects on politics and
civic life. Places of Mind charts the intertwined routes of Said's
intellectual development, revealing him as a study in opposites: a
cajoler and strategist, a New York intellectual with a foot in
Beirut, an orchestra impresario in Weimar and Ramallah, a raconteur
on national television, a Palestinian negotiator at the State
Department, and an actor in films in which he played himself.
Brennan traces the Arab influences of Said's thinking along with
his tutelage under Lebanese statesmen, off-beat modernist auteurs,
and New York literati, as Said grew into a scholar whose
influential writings changed the face of university life forever.
With both intimidating brilliance and charm, Said turned these
resources into a groundbreaking counter-tradition of radical
humanism, set against the backdrop of techno-scientific dominance
and religious war. With unparalleled clarity, Said gave the
humanities a new authority in the age of Reaganism that continues
today. Drawing on the testimonies of family, friends, students, and
antagonists alike, and aided by FBI files, unpublished writing, and
Said's drafts of novels and personal letters, Places of Mind
captures Said's intellectual breadth and influence in an
unprecedented, intimate, and compelling portrait of one of the
great minds of the twentieth century.
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