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OverviewThis 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. Rabate, 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, Rabate 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jean-Michel RabatéPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780823270866ISBN 10: 0823270866 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 01 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of 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"ReviewsThink, Pig! In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Pozzo fires this command at Lucky, his tethered slave, who responds with an outburst of logorrhea that reduces Western philosophy to gobbledygook. Pozzo's command raises many of the questions that Jean-Michel Rabate investigates in this learned and inventive study of Beckett among the philosophers. * Modern Philology * Very few critics have all the qualities and competencies required to engage fully with the entirety Beckett's work in all genres: a detailed familiarity with Beckett's texts in both English and French; a sensitivity to his linguistic, stylistic and thematic manoeuvres; an encyclopaedic knowledge of his intellectual context; an awareness of the range and detail of Beckett studies; and an ability to write with refinement and wit. It is clear from this remarkable book that Jean-Michel Rabate is one of those few. -- Derek Attridge, University of York Think, Pig! is a playful and incisive guide to Beckett's work and is sure to be of interest to newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Rabate demonstrates an encyclopedic grasp of scholarship in the field, while bringing a personal touch through related anecdotes and an accessible style...It is as fresh, meaty and loaded with ethical predicament as one of Beckett's carefully folded ham sandwiches.---Rhys Tranter, Times Literary Supplement Very few critics have all the qualities and competencies required to engage fully with the entirety Beckett's work in all genres: a detailed familiarity with Beckett's texts in both English and French; a sensitivity to his linguistic, stylistic and thematic manoeuvres; an encyclopaedic knowledge of his intellectual context; an awareness of the range and detail of Beckett studies; and an ability to write with refinement and wit. It is clear from this remarkable book that Jean-Michel Rabate is one of those few. --Derek Attridge, University of York Think, Pig! is a playful and incisive guide to Beckett's work and is sure to be of interest to newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Rabate demonstrates an encyclopedic grasp of scholarship in the field, while bringing a personal touch through related anecdotes and an accessible style...It is as fresh, meaty and loaded with ethical predicament as one of Beckett's carefully folded ham sandwiches.---Rhys Tranter, Times Literary Supplement Very few critics have all the qualities and competencies required to engage fully with the entirety Beckett's work in all genres: a detailed familiarity with Beckett's texts in both English and French; a sensitivity to his linguistic, stylistic and thematic manoeuvres; an encyclopaedic knowledge of his intellectual context; an awareness of the range and detail of Beckett studies; and an ability to write with refinement and wit. It is clear from this remarkable book that Jean-Michel Rabate is one of those few. -- Derek Attridge, University of York Think, Pig! In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Pozzo fires this command at Lucky, his tethered slave, who responds with an outburst of logorrhea that reduces Western philosophy to gobbledygook. Pozzo's command raises many of the questions that Jean-Michel Rabate investigates in this learned and inventive study of Beckett among the philosophers. * Modern Philology * Author InformationJean-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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |