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Title: Reflections on Exile and Other Essays : by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0-674-00997-5 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A satisfying intellectual journey
Comment: This book takes you onto a spectacular and highly satisfying intellectual journey. Many essayists set up their tent with the first couple of paragraphs and then spend the rest of the time just rearranging the furniture inside. With Said, one never knows what point he might make next, what brilliant new connection will be created before our eyes. You can tell by reading this collection how Said won his reputation as a fantastic lecturer and educator. I guess this is why Columbia University stuck by him when he was being vilified by his enemies for championing the Palestinian cause and demanding the end of Israeli occupation. Buy it, read it, enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: JARGON FREE HUMANISM
Comment: I don't understand the rather vicious comments below. I think that when Said claims that he's an exile, he doesn't simply means it in the political sense but a state of mind or a state of being. It means to be skeptical, cultured, and intellectually rigorous. I think some of the essays shows what it means to be a humanist in the best sense of the word. I too see myself as an exile despite a totally different set of experiences and circumstances. With this book, Said offers us a complex personality as well as an thoughtful and sensitive way of looking at the world and living in it. It might just be a manifesto of sorts for exiles just like myself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Comment: This long-awaited collection of literary & cultural essays, with the political undercurrent not uncommon in Said's work, affords rare insight into the formation of a keen critic & the development of an intellectual vocation.
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Title: Out of Place : A Memoir by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679730672 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679750541 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said ISBN: 1400030668 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679761276 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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