Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979
The Road to Morocco
By Albert Hourani
Orientalism
by Edward Said
Pantheon Books, 368 pp., $15.00
The theme of this powerful and disturbing book is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted. They do not simply arise, Edward Said argues, in the solitude of a thinker's or a scholar's mind. The scholar may 'attempt to reach a level of relative freedom from…brute, everyday reality,' but he can never quite escape or ignore his 'involvement as a human subject in his own circumstances.'
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