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Author : Natalie Leeder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786603210
This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between Theodor W. Adorno and Samuel Beckett, in particular with regard to freedom and its reconceptualization by Adorno.
Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192555502
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. Beckett comically embodies conservative religious and political doctrines; he plays Irish colonial history against contemporary European horrors; he examines aesthetic complicity in effecting atrocity and covering it up. This book offers insightful, original, and vivid readings of Beckett's work up to Three Novels and Endgame.
Author : Shane Weller
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nihilism (Philosophy) in literature
ISBN : 9781904713081
This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism.
Author : David Weisberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791447103
Offers a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, demonstrating how his development as a writer was shaped by shifting twentieth-century ideas about the social function of literature.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471855
Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.
Author : Michael Krimper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031420306
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Death
ISBN : 0415340497
A compelling read, Very Little ... Almost Nothing opens up new ways of understanding finitude, modernity and the nature of imagination. Revised edition with a new preface by the author.
Author : Max Pensky
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791433315
Brings together some of the most prominent and influential contemporary interpreters of Adorno's work in a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores Adorno's relation to themes and problems in postmodern thought.
Author : K. Gritzner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137534477
Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists.
Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501342967
Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno's Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno's Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.
Author : Werner Bonefeld,Chris O’Kane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350193642
While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory. Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice.
Author : Anthony Uhlmann,Sjef Houppermans,Bruno Clément
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9042019727
This volume constitutes a collection of over 40 articles selected from contributions to the Sydney Symposium of January 2003 that - as a part of an International Sydney Festival - was one of the major events related to Samuel Beckett of the last decade. The three sections of the book reflect the most vibrant fields of research in Beckett studies today: Intertextuality and Theory, Philosophy and Theory and Textual Genesis, Contextual Genesis and Language. Scholars from all over the world participating in this collection testify to the durable and universal nature of interest in Beckett's work.
Author : James Martin Harding
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438405773
Arguing that postmodernism has so shifted current critical paradigms that Adorno's work can best be assessed in terms of its relevance in specific localized contexts, this book pursues a course that preserves Adorno's opposition to hegemonic programs but that is also wary of Adorno's own (negative) penchant for totalizing concepts. Unlike recent works which attempt to synthesize Adorno's writings into a comprehensive system that then becomes either the focus of an overriding critique or an object of appropriation, Harding orders his book as a collection of essays whose loose association questions the structural totality of Adorno's thought. Though together the essays cover all the major issues of Adorno's thought and offer a wide critical survey of his writings, the diversity of their focus avoids a systematic reduction of Adorno's work into a reproducible technique or method. The result of this strategy is a far more dynamic analysis of Adorno than a mere critical reconstruction of his ideas. By applying Adorno's theories to works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka, the book pushes critical discussion of Adorno into cultural contexts that, while perhaps new for Adorno scholars, reach out to those whose knowledge of Adorno is limited. This book is a fine introduction to the subtleties of Adorno's writing and a genuine contribution to Adorno scholarship.
Author : Ben Ware
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472591425
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.
Author : David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137542656
This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.
