Reviews for Beginnings: Intention and Method

The average rating for Beginnings: Intention and Method based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-12 00:00:00 Howard Jenkins A window into a more literate past, where scholars across discipline had a working knowledge of such diverse texts as Oedipus and Ulysses, Seven Pillars of Wisdom as well as Koran, Vico's New Science and Freud's Interpretation of Dreams plus Dickens' Great Expectations and Foucault's gamut of discourse. As a book that ultimately asks scholars "where to begin?" a more contemporary question perhaps should be "who has time to read when faced with the blank word processing screen?" Intriguingly, Said's early magnum opus was published the same year as the Spielberg's modern summer blockbuster Jaws and I would correlate the decline and rise of various media: who would go through the trouble of tracing out the history of western critical thinking when you can probably become a tenured professor now espousing on the fake Latin used by child wizards or the costume choices of spider and iron men? Still an important journey to take, but there is little chance of me starting a YouTube channel to deconstruct this text, other than making a drinking game out of the many typographical errors pencilled into this edition.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-31 00:00:00 Dirk Poppe Cleaver and scalpel. What a wonderful devotion of a huge master to fact and fiction.