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Beginnings: Intention and Method

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  • Paperback: 414 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press (1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 023105937X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0231059374
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsBeginnings: A Fine Start
By Martin Asiner on December 8, 2015
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Edward Said's first significant book Beginnings (1975) was his initial foray in unraveling the often convoluted role of the intellectual who seeks to comprehend the inner significance of the beginnings of human culture. The word "beginnings" defies a ready explanation as does its frequent synonym "origins." As defined by Said, a beginning has its roots in the cold clay of humanity while an origin is more esoteric, more heavenly, more divine. Human beings tend to integrate themselves into the life spaces of others as they choose how, when, and where they choose to assimilate. Divine beings, gods, goddesses, and other assorted preternatural entities tend to focus near the hub of culture, interacting only with themselves. Said suggests that human culture commences with a beginning rather than an origin. Whatever preceded a beginning is akin to what preceded the microdot singularity that produced the Big Bang. Meaning, movement, and motivation are products of one human interacting with another to form an ongoing and self-directing purpose. Such primitive beginnings take on an evolving symmetry of conflict which soon enough morphs into multi-functional possibilities. "Possibilities" is a catch-all term denoting the entire spectrum of human achievement, one small part of which is literary. The inner structure of culture has a built-in kinetic base that manifests itself in the spoken word. Edward Said insists that the genre best suited to authorize and legitimize the inevitably expanding web of culture is the novel. A novel permits its author considerable latitude to create meaning by using potentially transgressive language to elide into actually transgressive language, thus giving violent birth to the beginnings engendered by the title of his book.Read more ›
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