开端 : 意图与方法（萨义德） Beginnings:Intention and Method

基本信息

by Edward W. Said (Author)

Format:Paperback 416 pages

Publisher:Random House Inc

Imprint:Vintage Books

ISBN:9780593687888

Published:30 Sep 2025

Weight:368g

Dimensions:203 x 132 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这位全球最受爱戴、最敢于直言的公共知识分子，带来了一本关于批评本质的启迪之作。

“读者将会感到惊讶、受到启发、受到启发、留下深刻印象。”——《纽约客》

“什么是开端？为了开始，我们必须做什么？作为一项活动、一个时刻或一个地点，开端有何特别之处？”

《开端》一书由此开篇。爱德华·W·萨义德是《东方主义》、《巴勒斯坦问题》等开创性著作的作者，也是我们这个时代最受赞誉的公共知识分子之一。萨义德追溯了人类历史上对“开端”的不同理解，并指出“开端”本身就是一种方法，是创造意义的第一步。它激发了对既有传统的突破，也赋予了新文本以生命。

萨义德一如既往地坚持既有人道又具有社会责任感的批评。 《开端》远不止于写作：它探讨的是想象与行动，以及实现人类意图时对自由与发明的限制。本书是一部关于知识分子角色和批评价值的经典且必要的论述。

From one of the world's most beloved and outspoken public intellectuals comes an illuminating book on the nature of criticism

"Readers will be surprised, stimulated, instructed, impressed."―The New Yorker

“What is a beginning? What must one do in order to begin? What is special about beginning as an activity or a moment or a place?”

So begins Beginnings, a scintillating work of criticism by Edward W. Said, author of Orientalism, The Question of Palestine, and other seminal works, and one of the most lauded public intellectuals of our time. Tracing humankind’s diverse understandings of what it means to begin throughout history, Said argues that “beginning” is itself a method, the first step in the creation of meaning. It’s what sparks a break from preexisting tradition, and it’s what authorizes new texts to be.

As ever, Said insists on a criticism that is both humane and socially responsible. Beginnings is about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from achieving human intention. The result is a classic and necessary treatise on the role of the intellectual and the worth of criticism.

作者简介

爱德华·W·萨义德曾任哥伦比亚大学英语与比较文学教授。他是美国艺术与科学学院院士、英国皇家文学学会院士和剑桥大学国王学院院士，其代表作包括《东方主义》、《和平进程的终结》、《权力、政治与文化》以及回忆录《格格不入》。他还与克里斯托弗·希钦斯共同编辑了《指责受害者》，该书由Verso出版社出版。他于2003年9月逝世。

Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims, published by Verso. He died in September 2003.