Secular divination: Edward Said's humanism

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 462-471

  Mitchell, W J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 39049116861     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430975     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Edward W. Said, Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975; New York, 2004), p. 373.
2. See Said, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York, 2004), p. 10; hereafter abbreviated HDC.
3. Giambattista Vico, The New Science, in The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860, ed. Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson (Bloomington, Ind., 1972), p. 57.
4. See James Clifford, "On Orientalism," The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), pp. 255-76.
5. See also Akeel Bilgrami's excellent preface to HDC, p. xii.
6. Said, "My Right of Return," Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward Said, ed. Gauri Viswanathan (New York, 2001), p. 447.
7. Said, "The Panic of the Visual: A Conversation with Edward W. Said," interview with Mitchell, in Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power, ed. Paul Bové (Durham, N.C., 2000), pp. 31, 34, 33.
8. Vico, The New Science, p. 56.
9. For the link between the prohibition on divination and the second commandment, see Moshe Halbertal and Avishai Margalit, Idolatry (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), pp. 105-6.
10. Said, Beginnings, p. 288.