Edward Said Criticism and Society
by Hussein, Abdirahman A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-17
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Summary
Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism , reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that underneath Saidrs"s carefully constructed eclecticism there is a global method in his work. Taking Beginnings as the key text Hussein asserts that the discontinuity of the Palestinian experience informs Said's entire oeuvre but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis. Hussein argues that this informs Saidrs"s approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Lukaacute;cs, Williams, Gramsci and Adorno.
Author Biography
Abdirahman A. Hussein teaches in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Technique of Trouble: Dialectical Subversion and Archaeo-genealogy | p. 4 |
| Dismantling Ideological Walls | p. 8 |
| Debating with Knowledge, Wrestling with History | p. 10 |
| The Myth of "Postcolonial" Theory: Intellectuals, Collusion, and Opposition | p. 12 |
| Is an Affiliated Human Community Possible? | p. 17 |
| Reflexivity and Self-creation in Said and Conrad | p. 19 |
| The Artistic Self in Conditions of Extremity | p. 27 |
| Dialectical Agonism in Conrad and Said: The "Either/Or" Imperative | p. 32 |
| Normativity as Negativity | p. 37 |
| Conrad and the Imperialism of Ideas | p. 43 |
| The Ego Historicized: Space-Time as Sedimented Gestalts | p. 48 |
| Beginnings and Authority: Ideology, Critique, and Community (I) | p. 53 |
| A Theoretical Intervention | p. 53 |
| The Paradox of Modernity | p. 70 |
| The Destruction of Foundations: Beginnings in the Absence of Origins | p. 72 |
| Rationality and Its Discontents: The Case Against Idealism and Empiricism | p. 81 |
| Reason as Intentionality: Towards an Experimental Rationality | p. 90 |
| Ideological Currency Versus Critical Knowledge | p. 92 |
| Language as Event: The Dynamics of Textuality | p. 97 |
| Beginnings and Authority: Ideology, Critique, and Community (II) | p. 105 |
| Narrativity and the Natural Order: The Fate of the Classical Novel | p. 105 |
| The High Drama of Modernism: Textual Production and the Dilemmas of Modernity | p. 111 |
| The Grand Gesture of Structuralism: Much Ado About Nothing | p. 122 |
| Vico and Foucault: The "Space" Between Philosophy, Language, and History | p. 128 |
| The Power of Discourse: Foucault on Truth, Knowledge, History | p. 131 |
| Vico's Poetic History: Humanity as Autodidact | p. 138 |
| The Struggle for the World: Culture, Hegemony, and Intellectuals | p. 148 |
| Should Worldiness Be an Issue? | p. 160 |
| Mapping Affiliations: The Genealogy of Modernity | p. 165 |
| Demystifying Culture: Hegemony or Community? | p. 172 |
| The Worldliness of Language: Texts as Bearers of Authority | p. 182 |
| Collusion and Amnesia: Refining Critics, "Radical" Theory, and the Liberal Consensus | p. 193 |
| Critical Consciousness, Methodology, and History | p. 210 |
| Culture and Barbarism: Eurocentric Thought and Imperialism | p. 224 |
| Critical Misreception: The Case of Orientalism | p. 224 |
| Orientalist Discourse as Hegemonic Intention | p. 236 |
| The Birth of Hierarchism: Identity, Imperialism, and the Canon | p. 248 |
| Structure of Attitudes and References | p. 253 |
| The Geography of Imperialism: Activating the Historical Stage | p. 259 |
| Contrapuntality Versus Hierarchy: An Atonal Conception of Community | p. 261 |
| Ahabian Megalomania: Imperialism in the American Century | p. 265 |
| Zionism, Orientalism, and Euro-American Imperialism | p. 269 |
| Zionism and God: Divine Self-legitimation | p. 289 |
| Conclusion: Normativity, Critique, and Philosophical Method | p. 296 |
| Notes | p. 310 |
| Index | p. 331 |
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