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Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno - Something or Nothing (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno - Something or Nothing (Hardcover)
Series: Founding Critical Theory
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Since his notorious 1961 lecture, 'Trying to Understand Endgame',
Theodor W. Adorno's name has been frequently coupled with that of
Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the
intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose paths
crossed all too fleetingly. Specifically the book argues for a
preoccupation with the concept of freedom in Beckett's works - one
which situates him as a profoundly radical and even political
writer. Adorno's own more explicit reconceptualization of freedom
and its scarcity in modernity offers a unique lens through which to
examine the way Beckett's works preserve a minimal space of freedom
that acts in opposition to an unfree social totality. While
acknowledging both the biographical encounters between Adorno and
Beckett and the influence Beckett's writings had on Adorno's
aesthetics, Natalie Leeder goes further to establish a dialogue
between their intellectual positions, working with a range of texts
from both writers and seeking insight in Adorno's less familiar
works, as well as his magnum opera, Aesthetic Theory and Negative
Dialectics.
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