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Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was one of the world's most influential literary and cultural critics. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, he was the author of twenty-two books, including Orientalism, Culture and ImperialismandOut of Place. He was also a music critic, opera scholar, pianist and the most eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the West.
‘Representations of the Intellectual is a masterly meditation on some of the most important questions with which intellectuals must grapple, notably their relation to power and their responsibility to speak the truth out of a commitment to a bedrock of universal values. It speaks of such issues in a way that is satisfying and at the same time whets the reader's appetite for more, surely the sign of an important work.’ — Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine ‘For all that’s changed, Said’s principles for a worthwhile intellectual life – in particular, remaining independent despite the financial temptations offered by governments or institutions, and being relentlessly honest, whatever the risks – are as vital as ever.’ — Juliet Jacques, Novara Media ‘Edward Said defines a corrective way to think about politics, drawing an urgent and absolutely necessary line between individual responsibility and authority of consensus.’ — Joan Didion ‘Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power.’ — Noam Chomsky ‘Edward Said is that rare sort of intellectual who is able to illuminate even the stormiest of human prospects with serene, often revelatory, light that shows us not only the obligatory two sides to every question, but the often overlooked third dimension as well.’ — Gore Vidal ‘Edward Said is among the truly important intellectuals of our century.’ — Nadine Gordimer ‘When Edward Said died in September 2003, after a decade-long battle against leukemia, he was probably the best-known intellectual in the world…. Over three decades, virtually single-handedly, he wedged open a conversation in America about Israel, Palestine and the Palestinians. In so doing he performed an inestimable public service at considerable personal risk.’ — Tony Judt ‘[A]rguably New York’s most famous public intellectual after Hannah Arendt and Susan Sontag, and America’s most prominent advocate for Palestinian rights.’ — Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker
