Living at This Hour
Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8049917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Deutsch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 31-62 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-7859129 |
| OpenAlex | W2981454492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers, Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said’s career-long engagement with Swift took the form of a passionate amateurism that has a claim upon us at a moment when the humanities are being asked to justify themselves to opponents within and beyond the university. Reading Said’s humanism through Swift’s inhumane satire, this essay both analyzes and attempts a mode of literary engagement that operates “between the world and the archive,” where Said argued that “Swift lasts.” Beginning with Said’s 1982 polemic against the church of high theory, “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, Community,” what follows demonstrates how Swift’s libertine wit, in its daring reconciliation of the human imagination with religious devotion and perhaps even divine power itself, inspired Said’s ideal of the secular intellectual
Aesthetics · Art · Charisma · Epistemology · Humanism · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Power (physics · Reading (process · Sociology · Swift · Theology · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History
The Value of the Humanities
NO Releasing and Anticancer Properties of Octahedral Ruthenium–Nitrosyl Complexes with Equatorial 1 H -Indazole Ligands
Edward Said
Counter-Intelligence
Swift's Tory Anarchy
The Character of Swift's Satire
Criticism Worldly and Otherworldly
Blindness and Insight
Language as Gesture
Swift's Landscape
Jonathan Swift
Critical Secularism
Techniques of Trouble
Auerbach in Istanbul
Edward Said
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |