Review:
"To understand Edward Said's "Beginnings" is to understand what is most importantly going on in contemporary critical theory, both in America and Europe. An immensely useful book by one of our most brilliant critics." -- Richard Poirier "It is the sense of total independence and, at times, of prophetic vision which makes [ "Beginnings"]... exhilarating." -- "Times Higher Education Supplement" "It is the sense of total independence and, at times, of prophetic vision which makes [ Beginnings ]... exhilarating." -- Times Higher Education Supplement "To understand Edward Said's Beginnings is to understand what is most importantly going on in contemporary critical theory, both in America and Europe. An immensely useful book by one of our most brilliant critics." -- Richard Poirier "Readers...will be surprised, stimulated, instructed, impressed." -- "The New Yorker" To understand Edward Said's "Beginnings" is to understand what is most importantly going on in contemporary critical theory, both in America and Europe. An immensely useful book by one of our most brilliant critics.--Richard Poirier "To understand Edward Said's "Beginnings" is to understand what is most importantly going on in contemporary critical theory, both in America and Europe. An immensely useful book by one of our most brilliant critics." -- Richard Poirier "It is the sense of total independence and, at times, of prophetic vision which makes [ "Beginnings"]... exhilarating." -- "Times Higher Education Supplement"
About the Author:
Edward W. Said was one of the world's most celebrated, outspoken, and influential public intellectuals until his death in 2003. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Humanism and Democratic Criticism (Columbia, 2004), Freud and the Non-European (2003), Power, Politics, and Culture (2001), Culture and Imperialism (1993), and Orientalism (1979).
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