Edward W. Said, 1997. (Credit: Gerard D. Khoury)
This interview was published in Sept. 2023, on the 20th anniversary of Edward Said’s passing.Less than a year after his death, US-British historian Tony Judt wrote, “at the time of his death, Edward Said was probably the most famous intellectual in the world.” How can we measure the turning point represented by the publication of Orientalism, and beyond that, the whole of such a heterogeneous work?KB: Orientalism has indeed had an absolutely considerable influence on academic and literary circles around the world. Not only because it has been translated into dozens of languages, but also because it has revolutionized a wide range of disciplines, from literature to history, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, political science, anthropology and so on. By deconstructing the Western system of representation of a stiff and...
This interview was published in Sept. 2023, on the 20th anniversary of Edward Said’s passing.Less than a year after his death, US-British historian Tony Judt wrote, “at the time of his death, Edward Said was probably the most famous intellectual in the world.” How can we measure the turning point represented by the publication of Orientalism, and beyond that, the whole of such a heterogeneous work?KB: Orientalism has indeed had an absolutely considerable influence on academic and literary circles around the world. Not only because it has been translated into dozens of languages, but also because it has revolutionized a wide range of disciplines, from literature to history, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, political science, anthropology and so on. By deconstructing the Western system of representation of a stiff and...
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