Beginnings: Intention and MethodColumbia University Press, 1985 - 414 頁 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, 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 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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... language , or of language as such . It is also the place where Socratic procedures will ultimately lead , if they are carried far enough . The cen- ter of the work of the uncanny critics is in one way or another a formulation of this ...
... language , or of language as such . It is also the place where Socratic procedures will ultimately lead , if they are carried far enough . The cen- ter of the work of the uncanny critics is in one way or another a formulation of this ...
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... language , therefore , writing or thinking about beginning is tied to writing or thinking a beginning . A verbal beginning is consequently both a creative and a critical activity , just as at the moment one begins to use language in a ...
... language , therefore , writing or thinking about beginning is tied to writing or thinking a beginning . A verbal beginning is consequently both a creative and a critical activity , just as at the moment one begins to use language in a ...
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... language and history — from the beginning , despite any one beginning . To say this at the beginning is hopefully thereafter to avoid the conservative safety of language without history , and vice versa . Thus beginnings confirm ...
... language and history — from the beginning , despite any one beginning . To say this at the beginning is hopefully thereafter to avoid the conservative safety of language without history , and vice versa . Thus beginnings confirm ...
第 xxi 頁
... language is not English is cited in an English translation . Although I do this both for the sake of consistency and because I would like the reader to have direct access to everything in this book , I must explain my policy on ...
... language is not English is cited in an English translation . Although I do this both for the sake of consistency and because I would like the reader to have direct access to everything in this book , I must explain my policy on ...
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