Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories.[...]

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs[...]

Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism[...]

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.[...]

From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap is Edward Said's final collection of essays, written between the end of 2000 and early 2003. They offer Said's commentary on the deepening crisis in the Middle East: pre-September 11 to the bombing of the World Trade Centre, through to the bombing of Afghanistan and[...]

"Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint, " by William V. Spanos, explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt's and Said's thought, not simply their mutual emphasis on the importance of the exilic consciousness in an age characterized by the decline of the natio[...]

From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship.[...]

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their homeland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming The Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home with[...]

Censured and ultimately banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this lecture was eventually delivered by Edward Said at the Freud Museum in London. In it, he drew on sources from literature, archaeology, and social theory to examine the profound significance that "Moses and Monotheism," Sigmund Fre[...]

Med udgangspunkt i en kronologisk og tematisk gennemgang af den vestlige akademiske og litterære fremstilling af Orienten og den islamiske kultur kortlægger forfatteren forbindelsen mellem viden og magt fra Napoleons egyptiske felttog i 1798 ogtil USA's m[...]

Detta nummer av Arche, 2012:38-39, utgör delvis en fortsättning på det tema kring Michel Foucaults doktorsavhandling Vansinnets historia under den klassiska epoken (1961) som inleddes i nummer 2011:34-35. Tonvikten ligger denna gång mer på Foucaults betydelse för diskussionen om psykiatrin än[...]