Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction now languishing in a ruinous

now languishing in a ruinous state in Madrid’s Casa de Campo park

China Miéville

Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making

— Library Journal

the knowledge we call knowledge

Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction now languishing in a ruinousAre intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is "to speak the truth to power" even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor