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Said  \nVINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC.  \nNEW YORK  \nFirst Vintage Books Edition, April 1996  \nCopyright © 1994 by Edward W. Said  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Vintage Books (UK), London, in 1994. First published in the United States in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1994.  \nThe Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:  \nSaid, Edward W.  \nRepresentations of the intellectual : the Reith lectures I  \nEdward W. Said.  \n[p. cm](p. cm) .  \nISBN 0-679-43586-7  \n1. Intellectuals. 2. Intellectuals in literature. I. Title.  \nII. Title: Reith lectures.  \nHM213 .S225 1994  \n305. 5'52-\u003Cic20 94-3950  \nCIP  \nVintage ISBN: 0-679-76127-6  \nBook design by Fearn Cutler  \nPrinted in the United States of America 9  \nFor Ben Sonnenberg  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction ix  \nI Representations of the Intellectual 3  \nII Holding Nations and Traditions at Bay 25  \nIII Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals 47  \nIV Professionals and Amateurs 65  \nV Speaking Truth to Power 85  \nVI Gods That Always Fail 103  \nINTRODUCTION  \nTHERE IS NO equivalent for the Reith Lectures in the United States, although several Americans, Robert Oppenheimer, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Searle, have delivered them since the series was inaugurated in 1948 by Bertrand Russell. I had heard some of them over the air I particularly remember Toynbee's series in 1950-as a boy growing up in the Arab world, where the BBC was avery important part of our life; even today phrases like\"London said this morning\" are a common refrain in the Middle East. They are always used with the assumption that \"London\" tells the truth. Whether this view of the BBC is only a vestige of colonialism I cannot tell, yet it is also true that in England and abroad the BBC has a position in public life enjoyed neither by government agencies like the Voice of America nor by the American networks, including CNN. One reason is that programs like the Reith Lectures and the many discussion and documentary shows are presented by the BBC, not so much as officially sanc-  \ntioned programs, but as occasions that offer listeners and viewers an impressive range of serious, often distinguished material.  \nI was therefore very honored to be offered the opportunity by Anne Winder of the BBC to give the 1993 Reith Lectures . Because of scheduling problems we agreed on a date in late June rather than the customary January time slot. But almost from the moment that the announcement of the lectures was made by the BBC in late 1992 there was a persistent, albeit relatively small chorus of criticism directed at it for having invited me in the first place. I was accused of being active in the battle for Palestinian rights, and thus disqualified for any sober or respectable platform at all. This was only the first in a series of plainly anti-intellectual and antirational arguments, all of them ironically supporting the thesis of my lectures about the public role of the intellectual as outsider, \"amateur,\" and disturber of the status quo.  \nThese criticisms do in fact reveal a great deal about British attitudes to the intellectual. Of course these are attitudes imputed to the British public by journalists, but  the frequency of their repetition gives these notions some current social credibility. Commenting on the announced themes of my Reith Lectures-Representations of the Intellectual-a sympathetic journalist states that it was a most\"un-English\" thing to talk about. Associated with the word\"intellectual\" was \"ivory tower\" and \"a sneer. \" This depressing train of thought is underlined by the late Raymond Wil","cbCaieJ4rVfJFo3f","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieJ4rVfJFo3f","pdf",5056754,134,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## I Representations of the Intellectual\n## II Holding Nations and Traditions at Bay\n## III Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals\n## IV Professionals and Amateurs\n## V Speaking Truth to Power\n## VI Gods That Always Fail","[{\"question\":\"Why were the 1993 Reith Lectures offered to Edward W. Said by the BBC, and how was the timing decided?\",\"answer\":\"He was honored to be invited by Anne Winder of the BBC to give the 1993 Reith Lectures. 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