Beginnings Intentions And Method
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Description
Edward Said's classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism, which encompasses the great thinkers and writers of the last 200 years.
Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Lévi-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 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.
Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Lévi-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 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.
