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Title: Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said ISBN: 1-4000-3066-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Eddie at his best!!
Comment: Eddie Said was a bright guy -- certainly one of the best of the "third world" intellectuals that flushed into the colleges in the mid-70s. The fact that he never attained the elegance and tragic vision of V.S. Naipaul should not be held against him. His music reviews are pretty poor -- upchucked Adorno -- and he doesn't seem to realize that Evelyn Waugh is, in fact, THE great novelist of Africa (he seems to prefer the subliterate Chinua Achebe). But this is a fitting memorial to a man who tried very hard -- and came close to real insight.
Rating: 5
Summary: Instinctively drawn to power
Comment: Said says he's instinctively drawn to the other side of power, but it's funny to think about Oscar Wilde's axiom that whenever anybody says something true, the opposite of what they're saying is also true. Said is instinctively drawn to power. He's been president of the MLA, and he loves to hear his mouth run. He has no poetry, no humor, no art -- just relentless self-righteous upper-class whining. He makes millions a year with his poseur-politics, but he couldn't write a poem if he had until the sun burned out. He represents everything that is wrong with academia today -- from poetry we have turned to ideology, from humor and wit we have turned to self-righteousness. This man is simply incapable of taking anything lightly, or even turning a witty phrase. He is a pompous bore from an upper-class family. Anyone this drawn to power, and so utterly without style, cannot be taken seriously.
Rating: 5
Summary: Power, Politics, and Culture
Comment: More than 30 interviews with cultural and political critic Said (Reflections on Exile, 2001, etc.) articulate his thoughts on issues concerning the contemporary academy and the Middle East. Published over the past 25 years in newspapers and academic journals, the interviews testify to Said's many interests. Viswanathan (English and Comparative Literature/Columbia Univ.) has organized his public statements into two sections, the first dealing primarily with his thoughts on literary criticism, the second focused on his role as an intellectual grappling with the crisis between Israel and Palestine. The former provides a blueprint to Said's cultural criticism and as such will be a valuable tool for scholars. He describes the influence Bloom, Foucault, Gramsci, and Raymond Williams have had on his own work, how and why he wrote the groundbreaking Orientalism, and the sorts of academic debates he finds tiresome, such as discussions of what comprises a canon. Despite Said's clarity and inviting, jargon-free tone, many non-academics will find themselves in over their heads in the first section. On the other hand, anyone who follows world news regularly will find much of interest in the second half, passages of which again prove that Said is one of the most articulate defenders of the Palestinian cause in the US. Always fighting for a more open dialogue, always debunking stereotypes of Arabs as insane, bomb-wielding terrorists, Said provides a wake-up call to those who have never conceived of Israel or the US government and press as being in the wrong in their dealings with Palestinians. For example, on Thomas Friedman, former Middle East correspondent and now an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Said says: "He gives the sophisticated Orientalist interpretation of the events, which uniformly comes out to be scandalously tendentious." A strong sampler of a unique and acute critical perspective.
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679750541 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679730672 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi, Andrew Rubin ISBN: 0375709363 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679758909 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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