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Power, Politics and Culture
Edward Said
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Description for Power, Politics and Culture
Paperback. Interviews with Edward W. Said. 512 pages. A fascinating collection of interviews with Edward Said, foremost thinker of our times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFC. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight: 364.
_______________ ‘A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of contemporary culture and values' - Nadine Gordimer ‘Lucid, passionate ... forthright honesty and steely lucidity' - Terry Eagleton, New Statesman ‘This fascinating collection ... offers a portrait ... of a vitally interesting individual' - A.C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday _______________ No single book has encompassed the vast scope of Edward Said's erudition quite like Power, Politics and Culture - a collection of his interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-nine interviews, Said addresses everything from Palestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonial rule to his politically active and often controversial life in America, and reflects on Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz and Rushdie as well as fellow critics Bloom, Derrida and Foucault. Said speaks here with his usual candour, acuity and eloquence - confirming that he was in his lifetime among the truly most important intellects of our century.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747574699
SKU
V9780747574699
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About Edward Said
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was born in Jerusalem, brought up in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in America. In 1963, he began to teach at Columbia University as Professor of English and Comparative Literature . He wrote twenty-three books which include the seminal Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and Parallels and Paradoxes with Daniel Barenboim, also published by Bloomsbury.
Reviews for Power, Politics and Culture
‘A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of contemporary culture and values'
Nadine Gordimer
‘This fascinating collection of interviews beautifully manifests these paradoxical self-positionings and deep ambiguities, and in the process offers a portrait - all the more striking for being so unselfconsciously self-conscious - of a vitally interesting individual'
A.C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday
‘Lucid, passionate ... forthright honesty and steely lucidity'
Terry Eagleton, New Statesman
‘This collection serves as a kind of intellectual biography: reading interviews is reading a man's life through the people who ask questions. It is difficult to think of any other literary official who would be worth the treatment'
Scotsman
Nadine Gordimer
‘This fascinating collection of interviews beautifully manifests these paradoxical self-positionings and deep ambiguities, and in the process offers a portrait - all the more striking for being so unselfconsciously self-conscious - of a vitally interesting individual'
A.C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday
‘Lucid, passionate ... forthright honesty and steely lucidity'
Terry Eagleton, New Statesman
‘This collection serves as a kind of intellectual biography: reading interviews is reading a man's life through the people who ask questions. It is difficult to think of any other literary official who would be worth the treatment'
Scotsman