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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE INTELLECTUAL

SAID, EDWARD W

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Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is 'to speak the truth to power' even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor Adorno, Robert Oppenheimer and Henry Kissinger, Vietnam and the Gulf War, Said explores th...[Read more]

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DetailsFITZCARRALDO
2026
120 Pages
Format: Rústica
ISBN: 9781804272244
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

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