Think, Pig! : : Beckett at the Limit of the Human / / Jean-Michel Rabaté.
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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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