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

"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. Rabate, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, ex...

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Autor principal: Rabate, Jean-Michel, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction: How on this earth one ought to live -- 1. Think, 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 towards Geulincx and Proust -- 6. From an aesthetics of non-relation to an ethics of negation -- 7. Beckett's Kantian Critiques -- 8. Dialectics of Enlittlement: Rats in Watt -- 9. Bathetic jokes, animal slapstick, and ethical laughter -- 10. Courage, or strength to deny? Beckett between Adorno and Badiou -- 11. Lessons in pigsty Latin: the duty to speak well -- 12. An Irish Paris Peasant -- 13. The morality of form, a French story -- Coda: Minima Beckettiana. 
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