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© 2009 by William V. Spanos All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spanos, William V. The legacy of Edward W. Said / William V. Spanos. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03388-9 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-252-07572-8 (paper : alk. paper) 1. Said, Edward W.—Influence. 2. Said, Edward W.—Political and social views. 3. Philosophy, Modern—20th century. 4. Poststructuralism. 5. Orientalism. 6. Humanism. 7. Imperialism. 8. United States—Foreign relations—Philosophy. 9. Politics and culture. 10. Mount Hermon School. I. Title. cb18.s25s63 2009 973.91092—dc22 [b] 2008027200 To the Memory of Edward W. Said, In gratitude for his Presence In a time of dearth [3.85.63.190] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 14:16 GMT) The nothing—what else can it be for science but an outrage and a phantasm? If science is right, then only one thing is sure: science wishes to know nothing of the nothing. Ultimately this is the scientifically rigorous conception of the nothing. We know it, the nothing, in that we wish to know nothing about it. —Martin Heidegger, “What Is Metaphysics?” Within its own limits, every disciple recognizes true and false propositions, but it repulses a whole teratology of learning. —Michel Foucault, “The Discourse in Language” To the Israelis, whose incomparable military and political power dominates us, we are at the periphery, the image that will not go away. Every assertion of our nonexistence, every attempt to spirit us away, every new effort to prove that we were never really there, simply raises the question of why so much denial of, and such energy expended on, what was not there? Could it be that even as alien outsiders we dog their military might with our obdurate moral claim, our insistence (like that of Bartleby the Scrivener) that “we would prefer not to,” not to leave, not to abandon Palestine forever? —Edward W. Said, After the Last Sky ...