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In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. It is, he argues, the intellectual's role to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Interweaving literature, history and philosophy, Said describes and demonstrates how the intellectual must remain a dissenter, never putting solidarity before criticism, and speak from the margins for both the people and the issues which are routinely forgotten or ignored.
作者简介
Edward Said is well known for speaking his mind on controversial issues. In this brief lecture series, he goes beyond speaking up for a cause or a social group to defend the act of speaking up itself. Hence the double significance of the title, Representations of the Intellectual: In representing an idea to the public, the intellectual also represents an image of what it means to be an intellectual. Positioning himself against the "expert" who provides "'objective' advice for pay" (to a government, corporation, or the media), Said articulates a vision of the intellectual "as exile and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of a language that tries to speak truth to power," by "bearing witness" to forgotten, ignored, or suppressed stories. Appreciating the postmodern anxieties that may arise from his bold claims about universal moral principles and the neat separation of truth from power, Said honestly confronts the problem of objectivity. He illustrates his idea of the intellectual with historical, literary, and personal examples, candidly confiding his heroes and villains, and revealing the beliefs and passions behind his own life's work.
Copyright © 1996, Boston Review. All rights reserved. -- From The Boston Review
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本书英文原名Representations of the Intellectual，这书名本身就不好译。这里有两个核心概念的联结，其一是Intellectual，其二是Representation。 首先，将Intellectual译为“知识分子”当然没有错。但是，作为在西方社会文化环境中所特指的一个人群，intellectual既不同于中...
评分文/简LEE 萨义德曾说：“在我的所有著作中，以对于（《知识分子论》）这本书的反应最为一致……人们说我触及了他们社会中的真实情境，即使我对那些社会一无所知。”而我对这本书的看重，也是因为它也触及了我们的“真实情境”。因此，我在这里想从“中国经验”出发，谈谈知识分...
评分萨义德在书中对“知识分子”作出了新的界定：在媒体发达、政治与学术利益交融的时代，所谓的知识分子已经是一种特殊专业，集编辑、记者、政客及学术中间人于一身，往往成为各种权力结构中的一员。反而在去国离乡的移民逐客中，在甘居异端的“业余者”、“圈外人”中，方能得见...
评分 评分读完萨义徳的《知识分子论》，才体悟得自己做为流亡者的一面。“大多数人主要知道一个文化、一个环境、一个家，流亡者至少知道两个... 流亡是过着习以为常的秩序之外的生活。它是游牧的、去中心的（decentered）、对位的(contrapuntal)。” 流亡，不同于流浪，因为流浪是漫无...
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Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
评分Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
评分For the secular intellectual, those gods always fail.
评分Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
评分Such a powerful account on the meaning and role of intellectual. Intellectuals are resistant, often marginalized, and pursue what is just and right that arises from their deepest convictions. This book is worth multiple readings, very incisive and thought provoking.
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