DABASHI, HAMID - Post-Orientalism Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror

New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. 9781412808729; Binding is almost as new. Name blacked-out on ffep. Contents are almost as new, with one dogged page. Very minor edge wear on the clean, complete DJ. I erased a few pencil marks. If I missed any, and they bother you, they are very light markings and can be easily erased. ; 9-1/4" Tall, XVII + 285pp. Cprt. 2009. Black boards. Spine lettering. FOREIGN RELATIONS. "This book is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and the power to represent. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's contention is that the figure of 'an exilic intellectual' is ultimately the paramount site for the cultivation of normative and moral agency with a sense of worldly presence. For Dabashi the figure of the exilic intellectual is paramount to produce counter-knowledge production in a time of terror. " ... Index.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .