Towards a Hermeneutics of Hope

The legacy of Edward W. Said

Bibliographic Data

ID2923802
AuthorsJon Nixon (University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume27
Issue3
Pages341-356
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300600838793
OpenAlexW2062059375
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

This paper focuses primarily on the later work of Said. After a brief review of what Said himself saw as formative events in his life it reviews the tradition of “philological hermeneutics” as Said himself defined it and within which he located his own work as a scholar. His key themes of intertextuality, post-colonialism, and receptivity/resistance are discussed as important elements linking that tradition to the particular style and substance of his political engagements. Finally, the paper returns to the question of Said's legacy as a possible contribution to our thinking about the purpose of humanistic scholarship and the role of the scholar-teacher as Said conceived it. His hermeneutics and his politics, it is argued, are all of a piece

Art · Epistemology · Feminism · Hermeneutics · Humanism · Intertextuality · Linguistics · Literature · Philology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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