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1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index. |
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| Contents |
Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Badiou (i): Being, Event, Subject, Truth; 2. Badiou (ii): Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics; 3. Badiou, Beckett, and Contemporary Criticism; 4. The Break with Doxa: Murphy, Watt; 5. The Event of the Event: The Unnamable; 6. The Thought of the Good: Enough, The Lost Ones, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho; 7. The Sparkle Hid in Ashes: Beckett's Plays; Conclusion: The Pathos of Intermittency; Bibliography; Index. |
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The leading contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou has been a lifelong devotee of Beckett's work. This ground-breaking study provides a full introduction to and critique of Badiou's philosophy, politics, ethics and aesthetics, and his interpretation of the Irish writer, as a basis for a major new reading of the Beckett corpus. - ;Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. |
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Badiou, Alain -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Badiou, Alain. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Influence.
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Badiou, Alain -- Criticism and interpretation -- Influence. |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Influence. |
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Badiou, Alain -- Quellen und Vorbilder. |
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Beckett, Samuel -- Rezeption. |
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Beckett, Samuel -- Werk. |
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Beckett, Samuel. |
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Badiou, Alain. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibson, Andrew, 1949- Beckett and Badiou. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199207755 9780199207756 (OCoLC)71163816 |
| ISBN |
9781429470285 (electronic book) |
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1429470283 (electronic book) |
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9780191525902 (electronic book) |
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0191525901 (electronic book) |
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1280754206 |
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9781280754203 |
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0199207755 (Cloth) |
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9780199207756 (hardback) |
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