Beckett and Buddhism Moorjani Angela
Beckett and Buddhism Moorjani Angela Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. Drawing on letters and archives along…
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Beckett and Buddhism Moorjani Angela
Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer.
She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most
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