Introduction
1. Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
2. Sense and Sensibility: On R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E. D. Hirsch
3. Amateur of the Insoluble: On E. M. Cioran
4. A Standing Civil War: On T. E. Lawrence
5. Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction after 1948
6. Between Chance and Determinism: Lukàcs’s Aesthetik
7. Conrad and Nietzsche
8. Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts
9. Tourism among the Dogs: On George Orwell
10. Bitter Dispatches from the Third World
11. Grey Eminence: On Walter Lippmann
12. Among the Believers: On V. S. Naipaul
13. Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community
14. Bursts of Meaning: On John Berger and Jean Mohr
15. Egyptian Rites
16. The Future of Criticism
17. Reflections on Exile
18. Michel Foucault, 1927–1984
19. Orientalism Reconsidered
20. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist’s Art: On Glenn Gould
21. How Not to Get Gored: On Ernest Hemingway
22. Foucault and the Imagination of Power
23. The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur
24. Cairo Recalled: Growing Up in the Cultural Crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt
25. Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America
26. The Quest for Gillo Pontecorvo
27. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors
28. After Mahfouz
29. Jungle Calling: On Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan
30. Cairo and Alexandria
31. Homage to a Belly-Dancer: On Tahia Carioca
32. Introduction to Moby-Dick
33. The Politics of Knowledge
34. Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler
35. The Anglo–Arab Encounter: On Ahdaf Soueif
36. Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation
37. Traveling Theory Reconsidered
38. History, Literature, and Geography
39. Contra Mundum: On Eric Hobsbawm
40. Bach’s Genius, Schumann’s Eccentricity, Chopin’s Ruthlessness, Rosen’s Gift
41. Fantasy’s Role in the Making of Nations: On Jacqueline Rose
42. On Defiance and Taking Positions
43. From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and History
44. On Lost Causes
45. Between Worlds
46. The Clash of Definitions: On Samuel Huntington
Notes
Credits
Index
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