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008			151230s2016 nyu o 00 0 eng d
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020			_a9780823270897
020			_z9780823270859 (hardback)
020			_z9780823270866 (paper)
020			_z0823270858
035			_a(OCoLC)933866579
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aPR6003.E282 _bZ7886 2016
100	1		_aRabate, Jean-Michel, _d1949- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThink, pig! _h[electronic resource] : _bBeckett at the limit of the human / _cJean-Michel Rabate.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2016. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- List of Abbreviations -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
520			_a"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. Rabate, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores the whole range of Beckett's plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation that runs from Bataille to Adorno, from Kant and Sade to Badiou. At the same time, he stresses Beckett's inimitable sense of metaphysical comedy. Foregrounding Beckett's decision to write in French, Rabate inscribes him in a continental context marked by a "writing degree zero" while showing the prescience and ethical import of Beckett's tendency to subvert the "human" through the theme of the animal. Beckett's "declaration of inhuman rights," he argues, offers the funniest mode of expression available to us today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aBeckett, Samuel, _d1906-1989 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		7	_aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aTheater _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aLiterature _xPhilosophy.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/45529/
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Literature
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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