A summary of the impact and background of Edward Said.
Columbia University’s English Department may
seem a surprising place from which to move the world, but this is what
Professor Edward Said accomplished. He not only transformed the West’s
perception of the Israel-Arab conflict, he also led the way toward a
new, post-socialist life for leftism in which the proletariat was
replaced by “people of color” as the redeemers of humankind. During the
ten years that have passed since his death there have been no signs that
his extraordinary influence is diminishing.
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