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Beginnings - Intentions And Method (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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Beginnings - Intentions And Method (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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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 preexisting 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 is 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 fulfillment.
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