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- Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Chapter 1 How to Think Like a Pig
- pp. 11-22
- Chapter 7 Beckett’s Kantian Critiques
- pp. 92-107
- Chapter 8 Dialectics of Enlittlement
- pp. 108-123
- Chapter 12 An Irish Paris Peasant
- pp. 171-181
- Coda: Minima Beckettiana
- pp. 200-204
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 205-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823270897
Related ISBN(s)
9780823270859
MARC Record
OCLC
933866579
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2016-05-07
Language
English
Open Access
No