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portada Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human
Type
Physical Book
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780823270859
Edition No.
1

Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human

Jean-Michel Rabate (Author) · Fordham University Press · Hardcover

Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human - Jean-Michel Rabate

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Synopsis "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, 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, Rabate 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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