Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction China Miéville

China Miéville

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As she charts her last weeks and her abasement at the hands of doctors and illness

In a land where even prayers are banished from taking root

the knowledge we call knowledge

Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction China MiévilleAre 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