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Against Reason - Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Aesthetics of Irreducibility (Paperback)
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Against Reason - Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Aesthetics of Irreducibility (Paperback)
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Anthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of
Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Becketts critical and
creative writings. He shows that Becketts aesthetic preoccupations
are consonant with some of Schopenhauers seminal arguments
regarding the arational basis of artistic composition and
appreciation and the impotence of reason in human affairs. While
Becketts critical writings are, in places, formidably opaque, this
work examines the ways in which such texts can be elucidated when
their intertextual affinities with Schopenhauers arguments are
revealed. Using Schopenhauers thought as a presiding interpretative
framework, Barron demonstrates how the widespread presence of
philosophical and theological ideas in Becketts creative texts
signifies less about his personal convictions than it does about
his authorial aims. He thereby highlights the ways in which
discursive ideas were appropriated and manipulated by Beckett for
purely literary ends. A central contention of this book is that to
judge the place of ideas within Becketts art, we should ignore
questions of their theoretical persuasiveness and consider their
role as purely aesthetic devices, the value of which is revealed in
terms of the existential impact they have upon his characters. In
each of the chapters that deal with Becketts fiction, Barron
underscores the artistically energizing tensions that exist between
the concepts that Becketts characters invoke in their attempts to
comprehend the import of their experiences and their conative and
affective tribulations which invariably prove resistant to such
analysis. Here the means by which such conceptual aporias engender
semantic potentialities underpin an exploration of Becketts
creative assimilation of rational discourse. While the focus of
this publication is upon Becketts early and middle fiction, which
was composed at a time when the relationship between the chaos of
quotidian ordeals and the value of rational thought became most
acutely relevant for him, numerous cross-references to his dramatic
and poetical works are provided in order to highlight the overall
significance of these issues within his oeuvre.
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