Beyond the suffering of being : : desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett /

Beyond the suffering of being : : desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett / / Roberta Cauchi-Santoro.

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This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to a...

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Superior document:Studi e saggi ; 157
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Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta,
Place / Publishing House:Firenze, Italy : : Firenze University Press,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy) ; 157.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 155 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTERONE
  • ON DESIRE
  • 1.1 What Desire?
  • 1.2 Desire as Lack
  • 1.3 Freudian Desire
  • 1.4 Lacanian Desire
  • 1.5 Lévinas and thè Desire ofthè Other
  • CHAPTER TWO A PERENNIALLY DULL AND INDISTINCT PAIN: "VAIN LONGING THAT VAIN LONGING GO"
  • 2.1 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing"
  • 2.2 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing" in thè pessimistic tradition
  • 2.3 Leopardi and Beckett withinthè nihilist tradition
  • 2.4 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing" within thè Heideggerian existential tradition and thè Levinasian "Ily a"
  • CHAPTER THREE MAKING SUFFERING SUFFERABLE: DESIRE POR THE OTHER IN LEOPARDI AND BECKETT
  • 3.1 Lacanian versus Levinasian Desire
  • 3.2 Compassion as Pietas to overcome Ataraxia: Desire for thè O/other in Leopardi
  • 3.3 Lacanian and Levinasian Desire for thè Other in Endgame
  • 3.4 Lacanian and Levinasian Desire for thè Other in Happy Days
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX OFNAMES.

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