- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (1 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521052432
- ISBN-13: 978-0521052436
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
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In Beckett and Poststructuralism, Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in relation to French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Uhlmann offers a work of literary criticism that is also a piece of intellectual history, emphasizing how Beckett develops a kind of critical thinking which differs from yet is just as powerful as that of philosophers who, along with Beckett, found themselves faced with sets of ethical problems which were thrown into sharp relief in post-war France. Uhlmann explores the links between ethics and physical existence in Beckett, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, and between ethics and language in Beckett, Derrida and Levinas, showing how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work. Literature is not reduced to philosophy or vice versa; rather Uhlmann considers how they interrelate and overlap, informing and deforming one another, and how both encounter history.
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Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in the light of recent French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Uhlmann explores the overlap between Beckett's aesthetic and philosophy, emphasizing how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work.
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To begin to test the kinds of interaction between literature, philosophy and history with regard to Beckett's Trilogy, it might be useful to juxtapose three texts: a work of literature (Samuel Beckett's Molloy), a work of philosophy attempting to describe the 'history of the present' (Michel Foucaults's Discipline and Punish) and an historical documentary film (Marcel Ophuls's The Sorrow and the Pity). Read the first page
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To begin to test the kinds of interaction between literature, philosophy and history with regard to Beckett's Trilogy, it might be useful to juxtapose three texts: a work of literature (Samuel Beckett's Molloy), a work of philosophy attempting to describe the 'history of the present' (Michel Foucaults's Discipline and Punish) and an historical documentary film (Marcel Ophuls's The Sorrow and the Pity). Read the first page
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