Edward Said is well known for speaking his mind on controversial issues. In this brief lecture series, he goes beyond speaking up for a cause or a social group to defend the act of speaking up itself. Hence the double significance of the title, Representations of the Intellectual: In representing an idea to the public, the intellectual also represents an image of what it means to be an intellectual. Positioning himself against the "expert" who provides "'objective' advice for pay" (to a government, corporation, or the media), Said articulates a vision of the intellectual "as exile and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of a language that tries to speak truth to power," by "bearing witness" to forgotten, ignored, or suppressed stories. Appreciating the postmodern anxieties that may arise from his bold claims about universal moral principles and the neat separation of truth from power, Said honestly confronts the problem of objectivity. He illustrates his idea of the intellectual with historical, literary, and personal examples, candidly confiding his heroes and villains, and revealing the beliefs and passions behind his own life's work.
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In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. It is, he argues, the intellectual's role to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Interweaving literature, history and philosophy, Said describes and demonstrates how the intellectual must remain a dissenter, never putting solidarity before criticism, and speak from the margins for both the people and the issues which are routinely forgotten or ignored.
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也不知道是因為崇敬他而覺其思想汩汩而齣,還是因其思想汩汩而齣纔生崇敬,恐怕乃是綜閤這兩點纔使得我沒把這麼一本話語錶述極盡晦澀、閱讀體驗盡顯艱難的書扔到垃圾堆裡去——儘管這是在《東方學》和《從奧斯陸到伊拉剋及路線圖》之後,我所閱讀的第三本愛德華•薩義德的著...
評分“(知識分子)需要穩健的現實主義、鬥士般的理性的活力以及復雜的奮鬥。它予人的鼓舞激發和蘊涵的錯綜復雜,至少對我而言,雖然並不使人特彆受歡迎,卻是因而更豐富。” ----Edward W. Said,1935-2003 閱讀這樣的著作,經常令人感到尷尬。就像班達...
評分作為“流亡者”的知識分子 ——讀薩義德《知識分子論》 □/徐強 “知識分子的公共角色是局外人、‘業餘者’、攪擾現狀的人。”薩義德如此概括1993年他在英國廣播公司所作的瑞思係列演講的主題。《知識分子論》(單德興譯,三聯書店)就是這些演講的結集。 如果要用更為簡約...
評分本書英文原名Representations of the Intellectual,這書名本身就不好譯。這裏有兩個核心概念的聯結,其一是Intellectual,其二是Representation。 首先,將Intellectual譯為“知識分子”當然沒有錯。但是,作為在西方社會文化環境中所特指的一個人群,intellectual既不同於中...
評分從薩義德的這本書裏,我們可以看到他對知識分子的定義是獨立於社會而又驚醒這個社會,從地域政治學派抽離齣來的個人不受影響的發錶作為人個人的觀點而不是代錶一個群體利益的觀點,纔是他眼中的知識分子,這樣的抽離和西方傳統思想的物質意識二分密切相關,我們中國講...
圖書標籤: Said 薩義德 英文原版 Edward
For the secular intellectual, those gods always fail.
評分For the secular intellectual, those gods always fail.
評分Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
評分Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
評分For the secular intellectual, those gods always fail.
Representations of the Intellectual 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載