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Representations of the Intellectual (Unabridged) by Edward Said

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Representations of the Intellectual (Unabridged)

Author
Edward Said
Narrator
Simon Manyonda
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date
15 January 2026
Run Time
4 hours 2 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Political science and theory

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Are 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 Adorno, Robert Oppenheimer and Henry Kissinger, Vietnam and the Gulf War, Said explores the implications of this idea and shows what happens when intellectuals succumb to the lures of money, power, or specialization.

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Author
Edward Said
Narrator
Simon Manyonda
Duration
4 hours 2 minutes
Release Date
15 January 2026
ISBN
9781804272510
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Genre
Political science and theory

Synopsis

Are 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 Adorno, Robert Oppenheimer and Henry Kissinger, Vietnam and the Gulf War, Said explores the implications of this idea and shows what happens when intellectuals succumb to the lures of money, power, or specialization.

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