Think, pig! : Beckett at the limit of the human / Jean-Michel Rabaté
"This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar crisis--the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes. Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, ex...
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Fordham University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: How on this earth one ought to live
- 1. Think, pig!
- 2. The worth and girth of an Italian hoagie
- 3. The Posthuman, or the humility of the earth
- 4. Burned toasts and boiled lobsters
- 5. "Porca Madonna!" Moving Descartes towards Geulincx and Proust
- 6. From an aesthetics of non-relation to an ethics of negation
- 7. Beckett's Kantian Critiques
- 8. Dialectics of Enlittlement: Rats in Watt
- 9. Bathetic jokes, animal slapstick, and ethical laughter
- 10. Courage, or strength to deny? Beckett between Adorno and Badiou
- 11. Lessons in pigsty Latin: the duty to speak well
- 12. An Irish Paris Peasant
- 13. The morality of form, a French story
- Coda: Minima Beckettiana.