Betrayal of the intellectuals: the last texts, authored by: Edward Said

In this book, which was translated by Asaad Al-Hussein, the basic concepts of Saeed's writings were monitored in order to rediscover him and identify the fundamentals he worked on, in order to highlight them and determine their intellectual, philosophical, and cultural status. These texts written by Saeed in his later years raise many deep questions about the ambiguous relationship between the intellectual and his environment, and the impact of global transformations in marginalizing the role of elites, at the hands of despotic regimes. Saeed also narrates in those texts a meaningful story. He received an invitation from the director of the Freud Institute and Museum in Vienna to give the annual Freud lecture on behalf of the institute. But he was surprised — after months — by another message informing him of the cancellation of his lecture, due to the political situation in the Middle East. Saeed considers that moral prohibition is absolute nonsense, a disguised fascism, and a concealment of the current accepted ideas. Number of pages: 384