On Edward Said, Scholar and Public Intellectual

musical and orientalist elaborations: edward said on music

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism

Austin,Jane. Mansfield Park. New York: The New American Library, 1964. Goldberg, S. L. Agents and Lives: Moral Thinking in Litn-ature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. Harris,Jocelyn.]ane Austen's Art of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue:A Study in Moral Theory.Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1981. Said, Edward W Culture and Imperialism. New York: Alfred A. K...

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

Intellectual property and public health.

It is appropriate that this issue of the Bulletin coincides with the report of the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property and Innovation in Health (CIPIH).1 Developing health technolog gies for the world’s poor people increasg ingly requires the wise management of intellectual property (IP), and the papers in this issue all treat IP as a strategic asset. Vaccines, DNA patenting, and the innova...