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Book SynopsisPreserving and honoring the intellectual voice that spoke with the urgency, generosity, and grace of the best of humanity
Trade Review"Entertaining, and clearly engaged in a live battle for Said's legacy."--Bookforum
"A very insightful opening to the works of one of the great social and literary theorists of the past decades."--
Tikkun“A brilliant intervention that is bound to enhance the quality of future debates over the usability of humanism.
The Legacy of Edward Said is thoroughly original, trenchantly insightful, learnedly polemical, wise in its erudition, worldly because theory-rich, theoretical on the basis of worldliness.”--R. Radhakrishnan, author of
History, the Human, and the World Between“Precisely because this work clarifies the debate around Said and his legacy, it makes a major contribution to critical theory, literary study, the humanities, and the public sphere. Anyone who is concerned about the course of intellectual life and the foreign policies of the U.S. government will appreciate this work.”--Daniel T. O’Hara, author of
Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
1. Edward W. Said and the Poststructuralists: An Introduction 1
2. Heidegger, Foucault, and the "Empire of the Gaze': Thinking the Territorialization of Knowledge 26
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Orientalism: Foucault, Genealogy, History 70
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Culture and Imperialism: The Specter of Empire 111
5. Edward Said's Humanism and American Exceptionalism after 9/11/01: An Interrogation 151
6. Edward Said's Mount Hermon and Mine: A Forwarding Remembrance and a Coda 197
Notes 233
Index 267
