Think, Pig! - Jean-Michel Rabaté

Think, Pig!

Beckett at the Limit of the Human
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2016
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7085-9 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8232-7085-8 / 0823270858
ISBN-13 978-0-8232-7085-9 / 9780823270859
Zustand Neuware
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