Introduction xi Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1(14) Sense and Sensibility 15(9) R. P. Blackmur Georges Poulet E. D. Hirsch Amateur of the Insoluble 24(7) E. M. Cioran A Standing Civil War 31(10) T. E. Lawrence Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction After 1948 41(20) Between Chance and Determinism: Lukacs's Aesthetik 61(9) Conrad and Nietzsche 70(13) Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts 83(10) Tourism among the Dogs 93(5) George Orwell Bitter Dispatches from the Third World 98(7) Grey Eminence 105(8) Walter Lippmann Among the Believers 113(5) On V. S. Naipaul Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community 118(30) Bursts of Meaning 148(5) John Berger Jean Mohr Egyptian Rites 153(12) The Future of Criticism 165(8) Reflections on Exile 173(14) Michel Foucault, 1927--1984 187(11) Orientalism Reconsidered 198(18) Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art 216(14) Glenn Gould How Not to Get Gored 230(9) Ernest Hemingway Foucault and the Imagination of Power 239(7) The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur 246(22) Cairo Recalled: Growing Up in the Cultural Crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt 268(8) Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America 276(6) The Quest for Gillo Pontecorvo 282(11) Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors 293(24) After Mahfouz 317(10) Jungle Calling 327(10) Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan Cairo and Alexandria 337(9) Homage to a Belly-Dancer 346(10) Tahia Carioca Introduction to Moby-Dick 356(16) The Politics of Knowledge 372(14) Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler 386(19) The Anglo-Arab Encounter 405(6) Ahdaf Soueif Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation 411(25) Traveling Theory Reconsidered 436(17) History, Literature, and Geography 453(21) Contra Mundum 474(10) Eric Hobsbawm Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift 484(9) Fantasy's Role in the Making of Nations 493(7) Jacqueline Rose On Defiance and Taking Positions 500(7) From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and History 507(20) On Lost Causes 527(27) Between Worlds 554(15) The Clash of Definitions 569(24) Samuel Huntington Notes 593(12) Credits 605(4) Index 609