作者简介

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."

Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947.

His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Israeli forces.

At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo, and then Mount Hermon School in the United States. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades.

Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin.

Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.

Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

内容简介

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.


In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions.


Critiquing Said, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair, wrote that he denied any possibility "that direct Western engagement in the region is legitimate" and that Said's analysis cast "every instance of European curiosity about the East [as] part of a grand design to exploit and remake what Westerners saw as a passive, rich, but ultimately contemptible 'Oriental' sphere". [2]


The British historian Bernard Lewis is another important critic who took issue with Said's work. The two authors exchanged a famous polemic in the pages of the New York Review of Books following the publication of Orientalism. Lewis' article, "The question of orientalism" was followed in the next issue by "Orientalism: an exchange".


Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."


Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British...

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    所以其核心在于,所谓“东方”的概念,不过是西方权力利用知识话语构建的一套真理体系,最终以达到其殖民地目的。01-26
  • 功夫熊猫小碗熊
    很好的长篇书评:http://book.douban.com/review/1535090/ 萨义德的论述重点在于伊斯兰世界和中东周边,范围最多延伸到印度,远东很少被提及(其实近东到远东基本上就是西方的东方学所划定的地理范围),不过中国文化学者们似乎很喜欢用东方学的观点来批评西方的中国学和汉学研究。我认可里面所提到的某些知识生产机制、霸权话语和文本与物质的关系,可能在西方中国学/汉学/东亚研究里面也存在着,不过假如我们接受东亚跟近东到中东确实进入西方视野的方式有不同,尤其是假如我们认可东亚几个主要国家的被殖民都跟近中东有所不同,那么东方学里的东西多少能够用于远东,我有点怀疑。有没有人写过类似于东方学的“远东学”批评,我不太清楚。西方中心论述这几个月来倒是深有体会。05-21
  • endup 帅气地
    为什么找不到我读的那版...- -/ 卧槽我真受够研究IR的theorists了为神马一个几句话能阐述清的理论可以反反复复反反复复一本书翻来覆去地说,不同句型不同例子说的一直都是同一个东西→此人已经因为essay要暴走了(虽然它是里程碑的存在我还是很郁闷啊!!!!!)05-01
  • 沁云
    研究生第一年读到这本书时觉得世界观被刷新了。03-25
  • 奶茶阿尼
    读了Introduction 。。刚开始直呼神奇,把我长久以来的一些想法一并道尽,读得酣畅淋漓好痛快!可是后面就开始越来越不对劲。。。02-26

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