{"product_id":"9781350136830","title":"Beckett and Dialectics : Be it Something or Nothing","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBeckett and Dialectics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, \u003ci\u003eBeckett and Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 include the relationships between voice and silence, space and void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and repetition and transformation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original analysis lends an important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, to dialectics itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with questions of method\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003e'How proceed ? By aporia pure and simple ? Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered… ?'. Accordingly, the contributors of this lively collection proceed by moving between “pseudo-couples” like Hegel and Adorno exchanging their negativities and Beckett's quasi-dialectics of “non-relation.”” —\u003ci\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeckett and Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding collection of essays on Beckett, driven not simply by scholarly interest in the literary giant, but by genuine philosophical encounters with his work, resulting in true passion and necessity of engaging with it. This makes the volume a particularly vivid and exciting read.” —\u003ci\u003eAlenka Zupancic, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, The European Graduate School, Switzerland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350136830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40780720406734,"sku":"9781350136830","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_fbcab2f0-a090-4d8e-baf8-9da06e22b64c.jpg?v=1642228104","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350136830","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}