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La relectura crtica - con su irrenunciable y caracterstica carga de profundidad idiosincrtica- de las propias lecturas y comentarios de Freud sobre la historia del pueblo judo es incuestionablemente brillante, y convence definitivamente al lector de que el intento, por parte de los aparatchiks del Likud y de los sionistas fundamentalistas, de asimilar el judasmo a las ms radicales pretensiones y apologas de un particular modelo de sionismo -es...

Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises reconciliation in the Middle East while keeping peace out of the picture. Said argues that the imbalance in power that forces Palestinians and Arab states t...

Edward Said has long been considered one of the world's most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said addresses everything from Palestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbr...

In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book World.

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt. Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his ...

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than"...

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A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics conti...

Der Literaturtheoretiker Edward Said war nicht nur einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts, der sich mit dem Orientalismus beschäftigte und maßgebliche Debatten über den israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt anstieß. Als ausgebildeter Pianist war er auch ein leidenschaftlicher und hoch geschätzter Musikkritiker. Dieser Band versammelt Texte zur Musik, die er in 30 Jahren für "The Nation" und andere Zeitungen schr...