- Introduction
- 1. Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- 2. Sense and Sensibility: On R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E. D. Hirsch
- 3. Amateur of the Insoluble: On E. M. Cioran
- 4. A Standing Civil War: On T. E. Lawrence
- 5. Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction after 1948
- 6. Between Chance and Determinism: Lukàcs’s Aesthetik
- 7. Conrad and Nietzsche
- 8. Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts
- 9. Tourism among the Dogs: On George Orwell
- 10. Bitter Dispatches from the Third World
- 11. Grey Eminence: On Walter Lippmann
- 12. Among the Believers: On V. S. Naipaul
- 13. Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community
- 14. Bursts of Meaning: On John Berger and Jean Mohr
- 15. Egyptian Rites
- 16. The Future of Criticism
- 17. Reflections on Exile
- 18. Michel Foucault, 1927–1984
- 19. Orientalism Reconsidered
- 20. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist’s Art: On Glenn Gould
- 21. How Not to Get Gored: On Ernest Hemingway
- 22. Foucault and the Imagination of Power
- 23. The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur
- 24. Cairo Recalled: Growing Up in the Cultural Crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt
- 25. Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America
- 26. The Quest for Gillo Pontecorvo
- 27. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors
- 28. After Mahfouz
- 29. Jungle Calling: On Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan
- 30. Cairo and Alexandria
- 31. Homage to a Belly-Dancer: On Tahia Carioca
- 32. Introduction to Moby-Dick
- 33. The Politics of Knowledge
- 34. Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler
- 35. The Anglo–Arab Encounter: On Ahdaf Soueif
- 36. Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation
- 37. Traveling Theory Reconsidered
- 38. History, Literature, and Geography
- 39. Contra Mundum: On Eric Hobsbawm
- 40. Bach’s Genius, Schumann’s Eccentricity, Chopin’s Ruthlessness, Rosen’s Gift
- 41. Fantasy’s Role in the Making of Nations: On Jacqueline Rose
- 42. On Defiance and Taking Positions
- 43. From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and History
- 44. On Lost Causes
- 45. Between Worlds
- 46. The Clash of Definitions: On Samuel Huntington
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
CONVERGENCES: INVENTORIES OF THE PRESENT
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
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Publication Date: 11/30/2002
656 pages
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