October 1, 2004

4 Books Examine the Ideas of Edward Said

By DAVID GLENN

MULTIPLE LIVES: Edward W. Said, who died of leukemia last September at the age of 67, often said that he hoped to follow in the path of Antonio Gramsci, C.L.R. James, and Theodor Adorno -- "unsystematic" thinkers, in Mr. Said's phrase, who wrote eclectic combinations of political and cultural criticism. In the eyes of his admirers, Mr. Said's literary studies, political jeremiads, and excursions into classical music made him an exemplary humanist scholar of his time. His critics,

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