ISBN: 9780593687888 - beginnings: intention and method (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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, L'vi-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 fulfillment.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 416 pages. 8.00x5.18x9.18 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 416 pages. 8.00x5.18x9.18 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From one of the world's most beloved and outspoken public intellectuals comes an illuminating book on the nature of criticism 'Readers will be surprised, stimulated, instructed, impressed.'?The New Yorker"What is a beginning What must one do in order to begin What is special about beginning as an activity or a moment or a place "So begins Beginnings, a scintillating work of criticism by Edward W. Said, author of Orientalism, The Question of Palestine, and other seminal works, and one of the most lauded public intellectuals of our time. Tracing humankind's diverse understandings of what it means to begin throughout history, Said argues that "beginning" is itself a method, the first step in the creation of meaning. It's what sparks a break from preexisting tradition, and it's what authorizes new texts to be.As ever, Said insists on a criticism that is both humane and socially responsible. Beginnings is about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from achieving human intention. The result is a classic and necessary treatise on the role of the intellectual and the worth of criticism.…

Zustand: New. EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960 Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he w.