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Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (Paperback, New edition)
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Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (Paperback, New edition)
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This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary
philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his
own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers
(especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to
his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the
relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth,
comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of
a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy,
writing, language and every individual and minimal form of
expression. The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of
Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns
out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a
contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to
the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or
'who' lies behind this process? What is left of the endgame of art
and subjectivity? Finally, what sustains and renders possible
Beckett's paradoxical axiom of the 'impossibility to express'
alongside the 'obligation to express'? By means of a thorough
overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will
try to answer these questions.
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