The Late Style of Edward Said / ﺃﺳﻠﻮﺏ ﺇﺩﻭﺍﺭﺩ ﺳﻌﻴﺪ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺣﻠﺔ ﺍﻷﺧﻴﺮﺓ

[Edward Said\u27s interest in late style -a concept drawn from Theodor Adorno\u27s account of Beethoven\u27s late music-was explicitly channeled to a book project that was not, however, completed in his lifetime. Yet, a careful reading of Said\u27s completed late work-the book on humanism and the political journalism of his last two years-reveals an exercise in late style as such: in other words, the work of an intransigent and restless spirit, unsatisfied with the certainties pronounced in his name, and focused on a mode of interrogation against the grain of identity-what the author called the task of secular criticism. /كان إهتمام إدوارد سعيد ﺑ أسلوب المرحلة الأخيرة من حياة ﺍﻟﻤﻔﻜّﺮﻳﻦ - الذي ينطلق من عمل ثيودور أدورنو عن الأسلوب الموسيقي في المرحلة الأخيرة عند بيتهوڨن - سيصب في كتاب يعدّه ولكنه لم ينته منه قبل رحيله٠ ومع هذا فإن قراءة متمعنة لكتابات سعيد في المرحلة الأخيرة - كتابه عن النزعة الإنسانية ومقالاته الصحفية السياسية في العامين الأخيرين من حياته - تكشف عن ممارسة لأسلوب هذه المرحلة كما تم توصيفها في كتابات المرحلة الأخيرة: أعمال تتسم بثبات في الموقف وروح قلقة وعدم اقتناع بما يُزعم باسمه ويسقط عليه وتساٶل مشكك في الهوية، مما اعتبره سعيد من مسئولية النقد الدنيوي٠‬

Communism and Poetry

This essay poses certain theoretical questions regarding the curious (but substantially evident) phenomenon of many of twentieth-century's most experimental poets being avowed (albeit maverick) communists. The first part of the essay suggests a series of dialectical questions for further examination, built on a constitutive antagonism between the desire to control historical knowledge and the poetic daring to invent the historical horizon. The second part of the essay pursues, as a way of illustration, a comparative reading of two poems by Ritsos and Alexandrou

The Regime of the Living

Stathis Gourgouris, ‘The Regime of the Living’, talk presented at the conference Anarchē: Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of the Ground, ICI Berlin, 7–8 July 2021, video recording, mp4, 27:41 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e210707_14

Governance, Hubris, and Justice in Modern Tragedy

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/148938/1/lambropoulos_2008_governance-hubris-and-justice-in-modern-tragedy.pd

Not MY Flag!” Citizenship and Nationhood in the Margins of Europe (Greece, October 2000/2003)

This article critically examines the generation of discourses on Greek identity following an episode that took place in northern Greece (2000/2003) when an Albanian student was elected flag-carrier in a commemorative parade. Three versions of Greek identity emerged in this context: the first was based on civic understandings of identity, promoting the current Europeanist project of citizenship as belonging. The second version drew upon the notion of “culture” as an all-encompassing concept to promote ideas of Greek cultural “purity” that have roots in Greek ethnogenesis. The third version adopted an understanding of the “nation” in terms of racial affiliation, transforming it thus into a natural category. The argument put forward is that in the context of the 2000/2003 episode (a) Greek self-perceptions are affected by the problematic economic and cultural position of Greece within Europe and (b) Greek discourses of identity are a form of resistance to processes of Europeanization that threaten traditional “imagined communities” embedded in history