Beginnings: Intentions and Method [Audiobook] download free by Edward Said
- Listen audiobook: Beginnings: Intentions and Method
- Author: Edward Said
- Release date: 2012/10/31
- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781847085993
- Rating: 9.21 of 10
- Votes: 418
- Review by: Milani Trent
- Review rating: 7.25 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/28
- Duration: 5H41M3S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, WMA Lossless, Shorten, TTA, MP3, WAV, FLAC (compression ZIP, RAR, DMG, CHM, RPM, BZ, BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 41 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 32M34S (8.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Theory, Art & Design, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.44 USD
- Dimensions: 155x234x29mm
- Weight: 514g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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