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Portrait of Edward Said

20th century · 1935–2003

Who influenced Edward Said?

Influences

Orientalism exposed how the West invented the East to rule it.

Edward Said was influenced by Michel Foucault. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Edward Said?

Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, grew up partly in Egypt and studied at Princeton and Harvard. From 1963 to 2003 he taught literature at Columbia University and became one of the founders of post-colonial studies, drawing on Gramsci, Fanon, Foucault and Adorno.

His best-known book, Orientalism (1978), examines how the West has pictured the East. He sat on the Palestinian National Council and supported a two-state solution, resigned in 1993 over the Oslo Accords, and by 1999 argued that lasting peace required a single Israeli-Palestinian state.

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Who influenced Edward Said?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Edward Said

The longest documented line of influence ending at Edward Said runs 27 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Max Stirner
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Martin Heidegger
  27. Michel Foucault
  28. Edward Said

Two steps away from Edward Said

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Edward Said

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Edward Said, with no direct line between them.

Edward Said by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
116
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
76 — #20 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Edward Said

Who influenced Edward Said?
Michel Foucault.
Who did Edward Said influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Edward Said.
When did Edward Said live?
1935–2003. The map files Edward Said under the 20th century.
How rare is the Edward Said card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Edward Said in 76 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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