Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward Said

Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward Said

_______________ ‘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.

‘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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780747574699
ISBN 10	0747574693
Title	Power, Politics, and Culture
Author	Edward Said
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2005-03-21
Number of pages	512
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