Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."
Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947.
His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Israeli forces.
At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo, and then Mount Hermon School in the United States. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades.
Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin.
Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.
In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions.
Critiquing Said, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair, wrote that he denied any possibility "that direct Western engagement in the region is legitimate" and that Said's analysis cast "every instance of European curiosity about the East [as] part of a grand design to exploit and remake what Westerners saw as a passive, rich, but ultimately contemptible 'Oriental' sphere". [2]
The British historian Bernard Lewis is another important critic who took issue with Said's work. The two authors exchanged a famous polemic in the pages of the New York Review of Books following the publication of Orientalism. Lewis' article, "The question of orientalism" was followed in the next issue by "Orientalism: an exchange".
撰文:亞當·沙茨 翻譯:陶小路 首發《東方曆史評論》微信公號:ohistory 《紐約書評》:過去與當下的東方主義 愛德華·薩義德的《東方主義》(Orientalism)是戰後知識史上最具影響力的作品之一,也是最容易被誤解的一本。或許最常見的誤解是,它是一本 “關乎”中東的作品;...
評分作為一本後殖民主義的經典之作,《東方學》被反復地評論,有人贊頌有人貶抑,但其影響卻依然強勁。凡是涉及到“外國人文學作品中的中國人或東方人形象”之類主題的論文,大多幾乎都要引述《東方學》中的觀點,卻不去仔細考察薩義德的觀點究竟是否適閤自己的論題。 ...
評分http://www.tudou.com/playlist/id/6215861/ 有興趣的可以去看看
評分 評分本書原名是《ORIENTALISM》,當然我們慣於將ISM字尾譯成"主義",但所謂ORIENTALISM,原始的意思是"東方學",即長久以來西方(傳統歐州國傢),如何研究東方(以中東為主的地區),以及這種思考脈絡下所形成的一種學術方法。但在書中,薩依德真正要告訴我們的是,這種思考脈絡如何成...
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评分很好的長篇書評:http://book.douban.com/review/1535090/ 薩義德的論述重點在於伊斯蘭世界和中東周邊,範圍最多延伸到印度,遠東很少被提及(其實近東到遠東基本上就是西方的東方學所劃定的地理範圍),不過中國文化學者們似乎很喜歡用東方學的觀點來批評西方的中國學和漢學研究。我認可裏麵所提到的某些知識生産機製、霸權話語和文本與物質的關係,可能在西方中國學/漢學/東亞研究裏麵也存在著,不過假如我們接受東亞跟近東到中東確實進入西方視野的方式有不同,尤其是假如我們認可東亞幾個主要國傢的被殖民都跟近中東有所不同,那麼東方學裏的東西多少能夠用於遠東,我有點懷疑。有沒有人寫過類似於東方學的“遠東學”批評,我不太清楚。西方中心論述這幾個月來倒是深有體會。
评分薩義德忽略的一個部分在於“歐洲”=“曆史進程中的主體和現代”不隻是歐洲人的建構,也是第三世界的建構。不對稱權力雙方對權力結構的固化有同樣的貢獻。就像性彆歧視不是男性對女性的壓迫而是全性彆共同促成的不平等一樣,認為歐洲中心主義的主體隻有歐洲事實上也是歐洲中心主義的一種錶現。
评分所以其核心在於,所謂“東方”的概念,不過是西方權力利用知識話語構建的一套真理體係,最終以達到其殖民地目的。
评分這類書看多瞭,就越發的覺得,人類真是沒勁的動物啊
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