Anthony Uhlmann

Beckett and Poststructuralism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Beckett and Poststructuralism, Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in relation to recent French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Uhlmann offers a work of literary criticism that is also a piece of intellectual history, emphasising how Beckett develops a kind of critical thinking which differs from yet is just as powerful as that of philosophers who, along with Beckett, found themselves faced with sets of ethical problems which were thrown into sharp relief in post-war France. Uhlmann explores the links between ethics and physical existence in Beckett, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, and between ethics and language in Beckett, Derrida, and Levinas, showing how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work. Literature is not reduced to philosophy or vice versa; rather Uhlmann considers how they interrelate and overlap, informing and deforming one another, and how both encounter history.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Molloy, surveillance and secrets: Beckett and Foucault; 2. Perception and apprehension: Bergson, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Beckett; 3. Crisis with moral order in post World War II France; 4. Towards an ethics: Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari, and Beckett; 5. Voices and stories: the translator and the leader; 6. Language between violence and justice: Levinas, Derrida, and Beckett; Conclusion.

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. Uhlmann explores the overlap between Beckett's aesthetic and philosophy, emphasising how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work.

Explores the relationship between Beckett and post-war French philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780521640763
• ISBN-10: 0521640768
• Artikelnr.: 22344974

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Molloy, surveillance and secrets: Beckett and Foucault
2. Perception and apprehension: Bergson, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and Beckett
3. Crisis with the moral order in post World War Two France
4. Towards an ethics: Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari and Beckett
5. Voices and stories: the translator and the leader
6. Language, between violence and justice: Beckett, Levinas and Derrida
Conclusion
List of references
Index.