Edward Said on 'The Clash of Civilizations' and Cultural Imperialism

In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. Edward Said, late Columbia professor rips Huntington's thesis to shreds, and with it, the kind of reductionist, 'realist' world view that 'The Clash of Civilizations' is an expression and symbol of. Literary theorist and activist Edward Said has provided indispensable insight into the cultural side of contemporary imperialism.

Orientalism and other books by Edward Said