by Edward W. Said · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099424512
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«Representations of the Intellectual» is the essay by Edward W. Said, published by Vintage in paperback (90 pages, in English).
Based on the Reith Lectures that Edward W. Said delivered in 1993, the volume brings together essays on the role of the intellectual in contemporary society. Said argues that the intellectual must address the public with independence, without being absorbed by governments or corporations, and act as a critical conscience.
Representations of the Intellectual, whose subtitle is «The 1993 Reith Lectures», was originally published in 1994 and belongs to the fields of philosophy, literature and social sciences.
Aimed at readers interested in political philosophy, sociology and cultural criticism, and at students or professionals in the social sciences.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
