Beckett/Philosophy / Matthew Feldman, Donald Verene, Erik Tonning, David Addyman, Peter Fifield, Chris Ackerley, Steven Matthews, David Tucker, P.J. Murphy, Dirk van Hulle, Emilie Morin, Lotta Einarsson, Kathryn White, Mireille Bousquet, Karim Mamdani, Matthew Feldman, Karim Mamdani, Alexander Gungov

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Matthew, Contributor.

Verene, Donald, Contributor.

Tonning, Erik, Contributor.

Addyman, David, Contributor.

Fifield, Peter, Contributor.

Ackerley, Chris, Contributor.

Matthews, Steven, Contributor.

Tucker, David, Contributor.

Murphy, P.J., Contributor.

Hulle, Dirk van, Contributor.

Morin, Emilie, Contributor.

Einarsson, Charlotta P., Contributor.

White, Kathryn, Contributor.

Bousquet, Mireille, Contributor.

Mamdani, Karim, Contributor.

Feldman, Matthew, Editor.

Mamdani, Karim, Editor.

Gungov, Alexander, Author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Samuel Beckett.

literature.

philosophy.

literary theory.

20th century.

relation.

Theatre of the Absurd.

existentialism.

English.

Irish.

French.

Local Subjects:

Samuel Beckett.

literature.

philosophy.

literary theory.

20th century.

relation.

Theatre of the Absurd.

existentialism.

English.

Irish.

French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2015

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Matthew Feldman is Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. Karim Mamdani is an independent scholar residing in North America and Europe.

Summary:

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.?S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett Studies This is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.?Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney

With the increased availability of archival documents, including the 266 folio pages (recto and verso) of the philosophy notebooks held at Trinity College Dublin, Beckett criticism has been greatly enhanced, and sometimes chastened, by genetic scholarship, as this anthology […] attests.?Andre Furlani in Modernism/Modernity

Not only do these trovata expand the "grey canon" in Beckett studies, but they also draw attention to vital territories in the interests, language, imagery and forms in Beckett's work-in-(re)gress which respond to, interact with, and echo, philosophical issues across his vast and eclectic readings.?Erika Mihalysca in The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Contents:

""Acknowledgments""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword to the ibidem Press Edition""; ""Foreword: Is This the Right Time to Ponder Beckett and Philosophy?""; ""Introduction to Beckett/Philosophy""; ""“I am not a philosopher.� Beckett and Philosophy: A Methodological and Thematic Overview""; ""On Vico, Joyce, and Beckett""; ""“I am not reading philosophy�: Beckett and Schopenhauer""; ""“Speak of Time, without Flinching�Treat of Space with the Same Easy Grace�: Beckett, Bergson and the Philosophy of Space""; ""“Of being�or remaining�: Beckett and Early Greek Philosophy""

""Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist Philosophy""""Monadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz""; ""“The Books are in the Study as Before�: Samuel Beckett�s Berkeley""; ""Beckett�s “Guignol� Worlds: Arnold Geulincx and Heinrich von Kleist""; ""Beckett�s Critique of Kant""; ""“Eff it�: Beckett and Linguistic Skepticism""; ""Beckett, Samuel Johnson,and the “Vacuity of Life�""; ""Beckett and Abstraction""; ""“I can�t go on, I�ll go on�: Beckett�s Form of Philosophy""

""Beckett and the Refusal of Judgment: The Question of Ethics and the Value of Art""""Conclusion: Beckett in Theses""; ""Information about the Authors and Editors""; ""Index of Names""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-8382-0641-X

OCLC:

908092105

Publisher Number:

9783838267012