| Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human Contributor(s): Rabaté, Jean-Michel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823270866 ISBN-13: 9780823270866 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2015042060 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel: - Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written or edited more than thirty-five books on modernism, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. |