Beginnings: Slaying the Father

This article reads Edward Said’s Beginnings as a theoretical attempt and pragmatic ideology that reestablishes revolutionary notions of fundamental intellectual devotees individualism. A theorist himself, Said emphasizes the urge for deconstructions in facing canonized values methodologies continue to shape our ways thinking. Beginnings: Intention Method (1975) inaugurates writing style liberates individuals from shackles outdated institutions , political systems, cultural norms. The researcher attempts prove such intellectuality parallels Ralph Emerson’s conception “self-reliance” despite conscious or unconscious abjuration this influence, which is clear Beginnings. For both meet over their belief individual self-sufficient source truth, utilizes Harold Bloom’s Anxiety Influence (1973) main theory. logic will be applied expose influence on former’s call nonconformity speaks directly soundness latter’s reasoning