Think, Pig!

Beckett at the Limit of the Human

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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 the whole range of Beckett's plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation that runs from Bataille to Adorno, from Kant and Sade to Badiou. At the same time, he stresses Beckett's inimitable sense of metaphysical comedy.Foregrounding Beckett's decision to write in French, Rabaté inscribes him in a continental context marked by a "writing degree zero" while showing the prescience and ethical import of Beckett's tendency to subvert the "human" through the theme of the animal. Beckett's "declaration of inhuman rights," he argues, offers the funniest mode of expression available to us today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823270866

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written or edited more than thirty-five books on modernism, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

Recensioner i media

"Very few critics have all the qualities and competencies required to engage fully with the entirety Beckett's work in all genres: a detailed familiarity with Beckett's texts in both English and French; a sensitivity to his linguistic, stylistic and thematic manoeuvres; an encyclopaedic knowledge of his intellectual context; an awareness of the range and detail of Beckett studies; and an ability to write with refinement and wit. It is clear from this remarkable book that Jean-Michel Rabate is one of those few."--Derek Attridge, University of York

Innehållsförteckning

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