Ebook: Edward Said: Legacy of a Public Intellectual

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Representing public intellectuals; 1 Edward Said and the style of the public intellectual; 2 Edward Said and the sociology of intellectuals; 3 Blogging Said: Public intellectuals in the Internet age; 4 Exile and representation: Edward Said as public intellectual; 5 Reluctant prophets and gadfly laureates: The Australian writer as public intellectual; Humanism as worldly affiliation; 6 The worldliness of intimacy; 7 Edward Said's unhoused philological humanism;This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre.