فمهمومي لمصطلح المثقف أو المُفكر يقول أنه ,في جوهره , ليس داعيةَ مُسالمةٍ ولا داعية اتفاق في الآراء, لكنه شخص يخاطر بكيانه كله باتخاذ موقفه الحساس, وهو موقف الإصرار على رفض الصيغ السهلة , والأقوال الجاهزة والتأكيدات المهذبة القائمة على المصالحات اللبقة والاتفاق على كل ما يقوله وما يفعله أصحاب السلطة وذوو الأفكار التقليدية.
ولا يقتصر رفض المثقف على الرفض السلبي, بل يتضمن الاستعداد لإعلان رفضه على الملأ.
المثقفون هم أبناء عصرهم تسوقهم السياسات الجماهيرية، ولا يقدرون على مقاومتها إلا بمنازعة صور السلطة ورواياتها الرسمية، وتبريراتها التي تروجها وسائل إعلام متزايدة الجبروت عبر توفيرهم عمليات كشف أقنعة أو روايات بديلة، يحاول فيها المفكر قدر استطاعته أن يقول الحقيقة.
إدوارد سعيد
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Edward W. SaidMots clés palestine
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the US or,in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness is to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.-1998
Edward W. Saidكلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر ازدادت ثقة الجمهور [الغربي] بالإستشراق. لكنه إذا كانت هذه الزيادة في الثقة قد تزامنت مع نقصان الإصالة، فلا ينبغي لنا أن ندهش كثيراً، لأن أسلوب الإستشراق منذ البداية كان يقوم على إعادة البناء والتكرار
Edward W. SaidMots clés europe colonialism west east orientalism
Every writer on the Orient (and this is true even of Homer) assumes some Oriental precedent, some previous knowledge of the Orient, to which he refers and on which he relies. Additionally, each work on the Orient affiliates itself with other works, with audiences, with institutions, with the Orient itself. The ensemble of relationships between works, audiences, and some particular aspects of the Orient therefore constitutes an analyzable formation[…]whose presence in time, in discourse, in institutions (schools, libraries, foreign services) gives it strength and authority.
Edward W. SaidMots clés homer orient orientalism
عندما جعل علي شريعتي هجرة النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم من مكه إلى المدينة ،فجعلها تنطبق على وضع الإنسان ذاته باعتباره اختياراً وكفاحا وصيروره متواصله ،إنه هجره لانهائية ،هجرة داخل نفسه من الصلصال إلى الإله ،إنه مهاجر داخل روحه نفسها
Edward W. SaidNo one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).
Edward W. SaidMots clés humanity survival imperialism culture labels connections
The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public. And this role has an edge to it, and cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place ti is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.
Edward W. SaidMots clés intelectual
There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been the fathers and mothers of movements, and of course sons and daughters, even nephews and nieces.
Edward W. SaidMots clés intellectual
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