Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in the light of recent French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Beckett and Poststructuralism is a work of literary criticism that is also an intellectual history of the relationship between Beckett's texts and their French philosophical and cultural context. Uhlmann explores the overlap between Beckett's aesthetic and philosophy, emphasizing how postwar French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work. This book addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.
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Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in the light of recent French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Beckett and Post-Structuralism is a work of literary criticism that is also an intellectual history of the relationship between Beckett's texts and their French philosophical and cultural context. Uhlmann explores the overlap between Beckett's aesthetic and philosophy, emphasising how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work. This book addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.
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To begin to test the kinds of interaction between literature, philosophy and history with regard to Beckett's Trilogy, it might be useful to juxtapose three texts: a work of literature (Samuel Beckett's Molloy), a work of philosophy attempting to describe the 'history of the present' (Michel Foucaults's Discipline and Punish) and an historical documentary film (Marcel Ophuls's The Sorrow and the Pity). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
molar institutions, concrete extensity, incoercible absence, immanent existence, inclusive disjunction, virtual event, spontaneous memory, decentred subject, body without organs, pure sensation, infinite substance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Malone Dies, World War Two, Samuel Beckett, The Anti-Oedipus, Big Lambert, Third Republic, Thousand Plateaus, National Revolution, Lady Pedal, Alan Astro, Father Ambrose, Leslie Hill, Georges Duthuit, Ruby Cohn, Soviet Union, Steven Connor, The Capital of the Ruins, Three Dialogues, Where Derrida New!
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To begin to test the kinds of interaction between literature, philosophy and history with regard to Beckett's Trilogy, it might be useful to juxtapose three texts: a work of literature (Samuel Beckett's Molloy), a work of philosophy attempting to describe the 'history of the present' (Michel Foucaults's Discipline and Punish) and an historical documentary film (Marcel Ophuls's The Sorrow and the Pity). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
molar institutions, concrete extensity, incoercible absence, immanent existence, inclusive disjunction, virtual event, spontaneous memory, decentred subject, body without organs, pure sensation, infinite substance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Malone Dies, World War Two, Samuel Beckett, The Anti-Oedipus, Big Lambert, Third Republic, Thousand Plateaus, National Revolution, Lady Pedal, Alan Astro, Father Ambrose, Leslie Hill, Georges Duthuit, Ruby Cohn, Soviet Union, Steven Connor, The Capital of the Ruins, Three Dialogues, Where Derrida New!
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- Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett on 21 pages
- What Is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze on 11 pages
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze on 10 pages
- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 5 pages
- Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson on 5 pages
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- After Beckett / D'apres Beckett (Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 14) by Sjef Houppermans on 5 pages
- Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image by Anthony Uhlmann in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions (Cross/Cultures 85) by Clara A.B. Joseph on page 133, page 134, and page 151
- Modernism, Narrative and Humanism by Paul Sheehan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- La souffrance portée au langage dans la prose de Samuel Beckett (Faux Titre 266) by Diane Lüscher-Morata in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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