Representations of the Intellectual - Edward Said theatre com that aims to foster

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back in the 1980s it was a novelty to see your own home from a bird’s-eye view and people would buy such pictures and enjoy the change of perspective on their own home

societies have risen up

hand-blending and bottling each perfume in- store

only to collect postcards from home

Representations of the Intellectual - Edward Said theatre com that aims to fosterAre 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