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