Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected

Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected

Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places Of Mind: A Life Of Edward Said’. An attempt to grapple with the complexity and contradictory character of Said, who was at once engaging, paradoxical, theatrical, seductive, critical, provocative, who could be on occasion defensive and even enraged.