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Rabaté, Jean-Michel

 
9780823270866: Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823270866 ISBN 13: 9780823270866
Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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.

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Verlag
FORDHAM UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0823270866
ISBN 13 
9780823270866
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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