Description: "Originally published in shorter form as The Edward Said Reader."
Review Quotes: "This volume reveals the dazzling range of Said's oeuvre, spanning explorations of political, historical, and literary matters to the studies of humanism, secularism, and theories of intellectualism. . . . An indispensable resource for scholars of cultural studies, history and politics, literature, sociology, anthropology, Western classical music and the arts." --Library Journal
"What becomes most evident rereading Said's work--besides the startlingly clear prose and impeccable scholarship--is how his contrary, original thought has affected other intellectual disciplines." --Kirkus Reviews "One of the leading thinkers of the age."--The New York Observer "Edward Said is the most distingished and cultural critic now writing in America." --Cornel West "Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area." --Washington Post Book World "No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work." --The New York Times Book Review