Beginnings : intention and method

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. 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B_Page_216_Image_0001_1L......Page 430 B_Page_216_Image_0001_2R......Page 431 B_Page_217_Image_0001_1L......Page 432 B_Page_217_Image_0001_2R......Page 433 B_Page_218_Image_0001_1L......Page 434 B_Page_218_Image_0001_2R......Page 435 B_Page_219_Image_0001_1L......Page 436 B_Page_219_Image_0001_2R......Page 437 THE problem of beginnings is one of those problems that, if allowed to, will confront one with equal intensity on a practical and on a theoretical level. A university English professor delves into literature, criticism, and philosophy as he explores the nature of beginnings Edward W. Said. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.