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In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an 'abject self-referring quietism'. Andy Wimbush argues that 'quietism''a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness'is a key to underst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wimbush, Andy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Samuel Beckett in company ; 7.
Temas:
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989
Quietism.
Quiétisme.
quietism.
PHILOSOPHY / Religious.
Quietism
Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and conventions
  • Published works by Samuel Beckett
  • Unpublished works by Samuel Beckett
  • Other works
  • Reference books
  • Beckett's correspondents
  • Introduction La vie très quiétiste
  • Chapter 1 Dereliction into Literature: Quietism and Beckett's 1930s
  • Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
  • Arthur Schopenhauer's Quietism
  • Beckett and Schopenhauer
  • Áskesis, Mysticism, and Belief
  • André Gide and Dostoevskian Quietism
  • Christian Mysticism
  • Quietism and Hellenistic Philosophy
  • A Basis for Quietism
  • Humanistic Quietism
  • Abject Self-Referring Quietism
  • Geulincx and Quietism?
  • Quietism continues
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 A Sufferer of My Pains: Murphy and the Little World
  • Tat tvam asi
  • The Alyosha Mistake
  • Luciferian Concentration
  • The Need for Brotherhood
  • Into the Big World
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Remnants of a Pensum: Decay and quietist aesthetics from Dream of Fair to Middling Women to Molloy
  • Moran's Prayer
  • Molloy and the Contemplative Life
  • The Thing in Ruins
  • The Fundamental Unheroic
  • The Tranquillity of Decomposition
  • Moran Checks the Rot
  • Moran's Putrefaction
  • Quietism, Violence, and Contradiction
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 The Sage Under the Bo: How It Is, Ernst Haeckel and Beckett's (German) Buddhism
  • Beckett and Buddhism: A Biographical and Critical History
  • The Western Religious Epic in How It Is
  • Darwin and the Natural Order
  • The Eastern Sage
  • Victims and Tormentors
  • The End of Suffering?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 so much short of blessed nothing: Salvation, rebirth and the late prose
  • Beckett's novel 'series'
  • Proustian Rebirth
  • Rebirth in the Trilogy
  • The Mystic Paradox
  • True refuge: from Ping to Lessness
  • Unhappily no: Company
  • The One True End to Time and Grief: Stirrings Still
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Published works by Samuel Beckett
  • Unpublished work by Samuel Beckett
  • Secondary material on Beckett
  • General works
  • Index

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