Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that underneath Said's carefully constructed eclecticism there is a global method in his work. Taking Beginnings as the key text Hussein asserts that the discontinuity of the Palestinian experience informs Said's entire oeuvre but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis. Hussein argues that this informs Said's approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Luk?cs, Williams, Gramsci and Adorno.
| Author: Abdirahman A. Hussein |
| Publisher: Verso |
| Publication Date: Sep 17, 2004 |
| Number of Pages: 348 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1859843905 |
| ISBN-13: 9781859843901 |
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