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Edward said's 'representations of the intellectual' is a superbly incisive analysis of the social importance which intellectuals occupy. Said sees the intellectual as a scholar whose role it is to speak the truth to power even at the risk of ostracism... Read More
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Authenticity and spontaneity in assessing these issues are instilled first by developing that moral sense, secular and flexible... Read More
An attitude of being outside the conforming principles of associations, even those by which the individual is defining himself,... Read More
Those are compelling and challenging standards, which anyone who aspires to the intellectual, in character or understanding (an... Read More
Said's critics, including the folks at 'commentary', demur at the all-encompassing nature of his mind, to which the sheer quant... Read More
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These pages are filled with words to live by
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Are supposed to risk being burned at the stake ostracized or crucified347
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He further contends that 34the hardest aspect of being an intellectual is to represent what you profess through your work and interventions without hardening into an institution or a kind of automaton acting at the behest of a system
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According to this visionary any intellectual who claims to write only for himself or herself or for the sake of pure learning or abstract science is not be and must not be believed
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In sum representations of the intellectual 1994 is the masterly work of a literary colossus that should be read by all and sundry regardless of fields of specialization because it touches on a myriad of human interest sore points
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He writes of the difficulties of negotiating the cosmopolitan and the national commitments of intellectuals also of the experience of exile and marginalization
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Above all the intellectual is an exile and an amateurthat is one consigned by choice to the margins