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DSid find this cite of a Timothy Brennan article from Critical Inquiry. From the cover looks like the issue was devoted to Edward Said. The Illusion of a Future: "Orientalism" as Traveling Theory Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Spring, 2000), pp. 558-583. His new book, "Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right, " http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231137303.HTM
has good blurbs from David Harvey and Susan Buck-Morss, author of a
classic on Adorno and, "Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical
Theory on the Left." To oversimplify Brennan sees postmodernist theory
as a reflection of Reaganite reaction.
>...Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from
the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within
supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the
humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled
into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." In a series of
interrelated chapters, Brennan considers narratives of the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the Clinton impeachment; reexamines Salman Rushdie's
pre-fatwa writing to illuminate its radical social leanings; presents
a startling new interpretation of Edward Said; looks at the fatal
reception of Antonio Gramsci within postcolonial history and
criticism; and offers a stinging critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire
and the influence of Italian radicalism on contemporary cultural
theory. Throughout the work, Brennan also draws on and critiques the
ideas and influence of Heidegger, Lyotard, Kristeva, and other
influential theorists.
-- Michael Pugliese