Humanities And Involved In Politics

By centering on his essays of political review, this study exploresEdward · W · Said's political positions, attitudes and idiographic points ofview, linking with his practice of knowledge and politics in more thanthirty years. Meanwhile, this study tries to unfold the inter-relations ofSaid's critical thoughts and the external-relations of different wise ofcomprehension, and catch on his thoughts all-around.This study considers that it is unapt to divide Said's practice ofknowledge from his practice of politics in the area of Said's study. Thiswill avoid of understandings and explanations that based on speculativeor abstract reasoning. Meanwhile, it will effectively catch upon thepertinency of the questions that Said brings out. Edward · W · Said is agreat critic, not a theorist. The relation between post-colonialism theoryand him is not so close just like what scholars have described.