Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This special issue of boundary 2 was meant from the start as an engagement with the legacies of Edward Said's work.It was meant to suggest a number of directions in which the notion of ''secular criticism'' may now be inflected while remaining true to the enormous critical energies inherent in its appearance in Said's work.With his sudden passing on September 25, 2003, long feared by those close to him and yet somehow unexpected, this element in the work presented here acquires an aura of inconsolable sadness.What was it that came to us in the form of this person and his work, and what is it that has now passed away?We will be packing and unpacking such questions for a long time to come.Said's work came to the fore at a time when the world of humanistic knowledge was coming to be shaken to its core, its basic assumptions about the possibilities of knowledge seemingly washed away.In the vernacular, these complex developments in the world of thought and culture have long been collectively dubbed ''postmodernism,'' often in the form of an epithet.Said himself of course was deeply influenced by the European thinkers-Adorno, Foucault, Derrida, and Auerbach, above all-whose work is an important element in this boundary 2 31:2, 2004.
Source: boundary 2
Author: Aamir R. Mufti
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1970153758