Ti nætters drømme

som vi mennesker og vores klode har brug for

De er tilsammen én stor klage- og opsang til landet Mogadonien

så hun kan forberede sig på revolutionen

havene varmere

Representations of the Intellectual Ti nætters drømmeAre intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is 'to speak the truth to power' even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor