This seminar will explore Edward Said's oeuvre in depth. Said's work consciously bypassed the borders of disciplinarily and the strictures of genres. We will focus on re-tracing the evolution of his thought through a close interpretation of the relationship between theoretical elaboration, political intervention and cultural production in his own work. In doing so, we will focus on the theoretical and historical genealogies of his seminal work Orientalism, his multiple writings on Palestine, and his views on the intellectual's vocation.
