Think, Pig! : Beckett at the Limit of the Human /

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This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar crisis-the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes.Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rabaté, Jean-Michel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature > Philosophy.
Theater > Philosophy.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
Animal Studies.
Comparative Studies of Bilingual Authors.
ethical approaches to literature.
literature and philosophy.
modernism.
post-modernism.
theories of comedy.
theories of the posthuman.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. How to Think Like a Pig
  • 2. The Worth and Girth of an Italian Hoagie
  • 3. The Posthuman, or the Humility of the Earth
  • 4. Burned Toasts and Boiled Lobsters
  • 5. "Porca Madonna!": Moving Descartes toward Geulincx and Proust
  • 6. From an Aesthetics of Nonrelation to an Ethics of Negation
  • 7. Beckett's Kantian Critiques
  • 8. Dialectics of Enlittlement
  • 9. Bathetic Jokes, Animal Slapstick, and Ethical Laughter
  • 10. Strength to Deny: Beckett between Adorno and Badiou
  • 11. Lessons in Pigsty Latin: The Duty to Speak
  • 12. An Irish Paris Peasant
  • 13. The Morality of Form-A French Story
  • Coda: Minima Beckettiana
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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