Beckett after Wittgenstein / Andre Furlani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furlani, Andre, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Influence.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett's library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosophers relevance to the Nobel laureate's work is scarcely acknowledged and seldom elucidated. Beckett after Wittgenstein is the first book to examine Beckett's formative encounters with, and profound affinities to, Wittgenstein's thought, style, and character. While a number of influential critics, including the philosopher Alain Badiou, have discerned a transition in Beckett's work beginning in the late 1950s, Furlani is the first to identify and clarify how this change occurs in conjunction with the writers sustained engagement with Wittgenstein's thought on, for example, language, cognition, subjectivity, alterity, temporality, belief, hermeneutics, logic, and perception. Drawing on a wealth of Beckett's archival materials, much of it unpublished, Furlani's study reveals the extent to which Wittgenstein fostered Beckett's views and emboldened his purposes. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Family resemblances

Private languages

Pain and privacy

Lucky's "Think" and the image of mind

"Excuse my language!"

Indigent style

Rule-following

"That mad (?) mathematician"

"We wanted to produce a contradiction?"

"To put it vaguely"

Making time on Beckett's stage

Psychology and aspect

Conclusion: the literature of exhausted justification.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810132160

0810132168

9780810132177

0810132176

9780810132184

0810132184

OCLC:

908991432