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Think, Pig! - Beckett at the Limit of the Human (Paperback)
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Think, Pig! - Beckett at the Limit of the Human (Paperback)
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This 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.
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