Saidian Humanism

"I came to understand Saidian humanism as a new foundation of the discipline of comparative literature; one that emphasizes exilic consciousness; the ethics of the human; textual filiation; worldliness; the critique of embedded epistemologies of Orientalism; and what I would call negative philology--a play on negative theology that uses the syntax of negation to designate what is no longer there."

~ Emily Apter, Against World Literature (2013), 219.