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Beginnings

Beginnings

Intentions And Method

by Edward W. Said
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/08/2012

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A 'beginning', especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between 'origin', which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and 'beginning', which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from pre-existing traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts -- it both enables them and limits what is acceptable.

Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning -- as a uniting of theory and practice. Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfilment.
ISBN:
9781847085993
9781847085993
Category:
Literary studies: fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-08-2012
Publisher:
Granta Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
235x154x29mm
Weight:
0.5kg

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