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Think, Pig! : Beckett at the Limit of the Human / Jean-Michel Rabaté.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823270866
  • 9780823270880
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 848/.91409 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6003.E282 Z7886 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)