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Edward William Said, eigentlich Edward Wadie Saïd , war ein US-amerikanischer Literaturtheoretiker und -kritiker palästinensischer Herkunft. Die britische Tageszeitung Guardian zählt Saids Buch Orientalismus zu den hundert bedeutendsten Sachbüchern. Er galt als Fürsprecher der Palästinenser in den USA. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. November 1935 – 25. September 2003
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„nfolgedessen ist das musikalische Publikum unserer Zeit das erste in der Geschichte, das nicht hauptsächlich der Musik seiner Zeit ausgesetzt ist.“

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„im Reinen und in Rechten / will ich menschlichen Geschlechten / In des Ursprungs Tiefe dringen».“

Edward Said buch Orientalismus

Orientalismo

„In Bezug auf die bewusste, geduldige, überwältigend entworfene und ausgearbeitete Textur seines Werkes ist Bach das genaue Gegenteil Beethovens. Selbst in den späteren Kompositionen, die den direkten Einfluss von Bachs Kontrapunkt zeigen (die Fugen op. 106, 110 oder 130, die Missa solemnis und andere), ist Beethovens Stil dramatisch - er drängt mit Phrasen von unwiderstehlicher Energie vorwärts, erobert neues Gebiet und strebt weiter, statt zu konsolidieren und mit kreisender Bewegung stetig auszugreifen, wie es bei Bach der Fall ist. In jedem seiner Werke verwendet Beethoven für diesen Angriff - entweder in der Exposition, Durchführung oder Reprise - andere Ansätze, die häufig winzig und themenlos sind, kaum mehr als gebrochene Dreiklänge (wie im ersten Satz der Eroica) oder thematische Muster, aus wiederholten Tönen gebildet (der erste und zweite Satz der Siebten Sinfonie). Bach ist episch, Beethoven dramatisch. Ich finde so faszinierend an Bachs letzten Werken (der h-Moll-Messe, den Goldberg-Variationen, der Kunst der Fuge, dem Musikalischen Opfer), dass er, anders als Beethoven, dessen Werke aus der dritten Periode die Gattung sprengen und eine Reihe zerstörter, unvollendeter, fragmentarischer Formen zurücklassen, offenbar bestrebt ist, jede Nuance, jede Verflechtung, jede Harmonie und jeden Rhythmus in das Ganze einzubeziehen.“

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“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”

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“I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”

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Quelle: Palestine

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(, July 20, 2003)”

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“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

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“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”

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“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.”

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“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.”

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“Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.”

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Quelle: Out of Place

“I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.”

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“We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)”

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Edward Said buch Culture and Imperialism

Quelle: Culture and Imperialism

“[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.”

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Quoted in Richard Middleton, Studying Popular Music (Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-335-15275-9), p. 248

“The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire. … The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emanate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.”

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Edward Said buch Orientalismus

Orientalism (1978)

“The intellectual origins of literary theory in Europe were, I think it is accurate to say, insurrectionary. The traditional university, the hegemony of determinism and positivism, the reification of ideological bourgeois “humanism,” the rigid barriers between academic specialties: it was powerful responses to all these that linked together such influential progenitors of today’s literary theorist as Saussure, Lukács, Bataille, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx. Theory proposed itself as a synthesis overriding the petty fiefdoms within the world of intellectual production, and it was manifestly to be hoped as a result that all the domains of human activity could be seen, and lived, as a unity. … Literary theory, whether of the Left or the Right, has turned its back on these things. This can be considered, I think, the triumph of the ethic of professionalism. But it is no accident that the emergence of so narrowly defined a philosophy of pure textuality and critical noninterference has coincided with the ascendancy of Reaganism.”

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The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), pp. 3-4

“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 buch Orientalismus

Preface to 25th anniversary edition of Orientalism (1994), p. xv
Orientalism (1978)

“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.”

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Representation of the Intellectual http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gmx4c (1994)

“Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.”

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Edward Said buch Culture and Imperialism

Culture and Imperialism (1993), Chap 4, Sect 2

“The prevailing situation of criticism… has given rise to a cult of professional expertise whose effect in general is pernicious. For the intellectual class, expertise has usually been a service rendered, and sold, to the central authority of society. This is the trahison des clercs of which Julien Benda spoke in the 1920s. Expertise in foreign affairs, for example, has usually meant the legitimization of the conduct of foreign policy and, what is more to the point, a sustained investment in revalidating the role of experts in foreign affairs. The same sort of thing is true of literary critics and professional humanists, except that their expertise is based upon noninterference in what Vico grandly calls the world of nations but which prosaically might just as well be called “the world.” We tell our students and our general constituency that we defend the classics, the virtues of a liberal education, and the precious pleasures of literature even as we also show ourselves to be silent (perhaps incompetent) about the historical and social world in which all these things take place…. Humanists and intellectuals accept the idea that… cultural types are not supposed to interfere in matters for which the social system has not certified them.”

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The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), pp. 2-3

“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”

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Edward Said buch Orientalismus

Orientalism (1978)

“The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.”

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Culture and Imperialism (1993), Chap 4, Sect 2

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”

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"Preface (2003)"
Orientalism (1978)

“As an Egyptian of Palestinian origin teaching English literature at an American university, who had built his scholarly career on a Polish sailor that became an English writer (Joseph Conrad), Said’s assertion that western orientalists could not comprehend the East and easterners because they were born into a different culture, seems somewhat bizarre.”

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Yoav Gelber, Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011), p. 56

“Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.”

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quoted in "Internal Exile" by Pankaj Mishra in The New Yorker, 2022

“A historian of science is not expected to be a scientist, but he is expected to have some basic knowledge of the scientific alphabet. Similarly, a historian of Orientalism—that is to say, the work of historians and philologists—should have at least some acquaintance with the history and philology with which they were concerned.”

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Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982

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