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Beckett and Dialectics - Be it Something or Nothing (Hardcover)
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Beckett and Dialectics - Be it Something or Nothing (Hardcover)
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For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been
dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations.
This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand
Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different
chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential
dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity,
exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most
crucially: negativity. With contributions from prominent scholars
such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, Beckett and
Dialectics not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the
shapes, types, and forms of negation – as in the all-pervasive
figures of ‘nothing’, ‘no’, ‘null’, and ‘not’ –
but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout
Beckett’s work are structured in their use of negativity. These
include the relationships between voice and silence, space and
void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and
repetition and transformation. This original analysis lends an
important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more
fundamentally, to dialectics itself.
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