Edward Said

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Germany

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Edward Wadie Said (Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, transliteration: Edward Wādi Sa‘id) (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in post-colonial theory. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edward+Said">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,722x

2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

   · 2000 · cited 27,650x

3. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,321x

4. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

   · 2000 · cited 23,715x

5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

   · 1963 · cited 18,946x

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Quotes

• “When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.”
• “[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.”
• “The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
• “Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.”
• “Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”
• “It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.”

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Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim in Sevilla, 2002 (Said).jpg

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