萨义德学术研究领域广阔导致其批判理论的综合性、复杂性与矛盾性,其思想体系既有哲学层面的思辨、知识社会学的梳理、文学文本的细读、文化政治的关注、美学的分析、艺术的阐释,还有政治实践的补充,表明萨义德更关注文学、政治、美学与文化问题。在西方美学思想史上,由哲学研究最终走向美学之维的情形已然是一种传统,从柏拉图、亚里士多德、法国古典主义者、康德、黑格尔、葛兰 Sayed’s broad field of academic research led to the synthesis of its critical theory, complexity and contradiction, the ideological system of both philosophical thinking, knowledge sociology, literary reading, cultural and political concerns, aesthetics Analysis, the interpretation of art, and the supplement of political practice show that Said is more concerned with literature, politics, aesthetics and culture. It is already a tradition in the history of Western aesthetics that the ultimate goal of philosophical research moves toward the dimension of aesthetics, from the traditions of Plato, Aristotle, French classicists, Kant, Hegel,