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This is an edited version of Edward Said's last lecture before his untimely death, given in 2003. It is utterly, utterly brilliant! His eloquence and linguistic precision leaves me awestruck. However busy your schedule, please do take the time to listen.

Edward Said - Lecture UC Berkeley

On Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1882, with book 5 added 1887).

What is wisdom? Nietzsche gives us an updated take on the Socratic project of challenging your most deeply held beliefs. Challenge not just your belief in God (“God is dead!”) but uncover all your habits of thinking in terms of the divine. Question the motives behind relentless inquiry: the “will to truth.” Realize how little of your life is actually a matter of conscious reflection, and the consequent limits on self-knowledge. The very act of systematization in philosophy overestimates what we can know; instead, we need a “gay” (in the sense of cheerful, carefree, and subversive) science (in the sense of organized knowledge; this is not about modern experimental science) that chases after fleeting insights and is able to question, i.e. laugh at, the pretensions of its own activity. This is the position from which one can then artistically create one’s own character and one’s values, and this “creation” is not whimsical in the sense of arbitrary, but is a matter of rigorous and careful discernment, an exercise of one’s “intellectual conscience.” Hear Mark, Wes, and Dylan frolic through this field of aphorisms and short essays.

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Nietzsche's Gay Science - Partially Examined Life

Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, gives the second annual Edward W Said London Lecture.

LRB Lecture at the British Museum, 31 May 2011

LRB Lecture Edward W Said London lecture: Human dignity in Jerusalem

For those of you who couldn't attend Dr. Chomsky's lecture on the Israel-Palestine conflict in person, I've uploaded the complete lecture and subsequent Q&A.

Noam Chomsky Israel-Palestine Lecture Q&A; ASU 2.9.12

We’re pleased to present the Cairo Book Club’s first podcast: a discussion of I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Palestinian author Mourid Barghouti, a sequel to his much-lauded memoir I Saw Ramallah. The English translation by Humphrey Davies was named runner-up for the 2012 Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, and Davies was very kind in joining us for our discussion of the book and on translation. 

Cairo Book Club is a bilingual literary circle established in 2009 and based in Cairo. We meet monthly to discuss Arabic literature in Arabic and English, and you can see what we’re reading at cairobookclub.wordpress.com.

This podcast was originally posted on Rolling Bulb. You can read more about the book, its author, and translator here: http://rollingbulb.com/post/53202731731/i-was-born-there-i-was-born-here-an-audio-book 

Edward Said - Lecture UC Berkeley

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