Representations of the intellectual : the 1993 Reith lectures
- New York Vintage Books 1996
- xix, 121 p. 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
In these six essays--delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures--Edward Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests a recasting of the intellectual's vision to resist the lures of power, money, and specialization. In these pieces, Said eloquently illustrates his arguments by drawing on such writers as Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Regis Debray, Julien Benda, and Theodore Adorno, and by discussing cur.
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Intellectuals Intellectuals in literature Tradition Philosophy