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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Theater > Philosophy.
Literature > Philosophy.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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