Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures: by Edward W. Said (Author)

[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

http://www.amazon.com/Representations-Intellectual-1993-Reith-Lectures/dp/0679761276/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368905967&sr=1-1&keywords=representation+of+the+intellectual

Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures Paperback

by Edward W. Said (Author)

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author

Edward Saïd, Ph.D.,, was a critically acclaimed American writer and professor of Palestinian origin. He was born on November 1, 1935 and died on September 25, 2003. He had a Palestinian Protestant mother and a wealthy Palestinian-American Catholic father. He grew up in a Jerusalem that was under British mandate. The Palestinian-American intellectual to be would spend his life investigating the in the end imaginary line that divides the East and the West.

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

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[La Vonda R. Staples]

Thank you!!!!  I had to run downstairs and make sure I had at least 1 book by Said.  It will be joined, very soon, by this one.  Thank you again.  I IMMEDIATELY went to amazon.com to look at more of his works.  

This is one of the reasons I LOVE THIS FORUM!!!!  One day, there should be some kind of anthology of essays on the impact of Dr. Falola's forum.  Something like, "What I Learned In The Cyber-Company of Dr. Falola."  Something along those lines.  I think it would be an outstanding effort to know the impact one man has on the lives of many people with whom he does not have in person interaction.  Just a thought.  You all have introduced me to so many new to me authors, concepts, artists (such as the man who designed the album covers for Fela) that my experience is really one of an ongoing graduate course.  

Just a thought,

Vonda

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La Vonda R. Staples, Writer

BA Psychology 2005 and MA European History 2009

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“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great; Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

You put it well, La Vonda.

Funmi's posts demonstrate   her special cultural breadth, one of the jewels on this forum. 

The forum posts should also be made into year by year book series.

They would constitute a priceless resource. 

thanks

tioyin