Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing Ruda Eva
Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing Ruda Eva For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. The…
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Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing Ruda Eva
For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity.With contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, Beckett and Dialectics not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the shapes, types, and forms of negation - as in the all-pervasive figures of 'nothing', 'no', 'null', and 'not' - but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout Beckett's work are structured in their use of negativity. These This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work.