Freedom And Negativity In Beckett And Adorno

Author : Natalie Leeder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786603217
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno written by Natalie Leeder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0192555502
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath written by James McNaughton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1904713084
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for the Negative written by Shane Weller and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism.

Author : David Weisberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447109
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Disorder written by David Weisberg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1108471854
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Samuel Beckett Studies written by Jean-Michel Rabaté and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Author : Darrow Schecter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441152571
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas written by Darrow Schecter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?The book opens with an analysis of Weber as a figure who marks a key moment of sociological transition. Weber articulates a distinctly different view to Enlightenment thinkers who believe in the capacity of reason to improve society and emancipate humanity from ignorance and domination. Weber signals that the institutionalization of the instrumental reason particular to industrial society might actually be an effective tool in the struggle for social supremacy. He notes that in comparison with charismatic and traditional legitimation, modern forms of legal-rational legitimation are de-personalised, anonymously bureaucratic, and much more difficult to combat.The book then looks at various responses to Weber's diagnosis, from Lukács and Benjamin to Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Arendt, Simmel, Foucault and Habermas. The study culminates with a sociological reading of critical theory that draws together Adorno's concept of non-identity with Habermas on communicative reason and Luhmann on social complexity and differentiation.

Author : William S. Allen
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823269302
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Negativity written by William S. Allen and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno are among the most difficult but also the most profound thinkers in twentieth-century aesthetics. While their methods and perspectives differ widely, they share a concern with the negativity of the artwork conceived in terms of either its experience and possibility or its critical expression. Such negativity is neither nihilistic nor pessimistic but concerns the status of the artwork and its autonomy in relation to its context or its experience. For both Blanchot and Adorno negativity is the key to understanding the status of the artwork in post-Kantian aesthetics and, although it indicates how art expresses critical possibilities, albeit negatively, it also shows that art bears an irreducible ambiguity such that its meaning can always negate itself. This ambiguity takes on an added material significance when considered in relation to language as the negativity of the work becomes aesthetic in the further sense of being both sensible and experimental, and in doing so the language of the literary work becomes a form of thinking that enables materiality to be thought in its ambiguity. In a series of rich and compelling readings, William S. Allen shows how an original and rigorous mode of thinking arises within Blanchot’s early writings and how Adorno’s aesthetics depends on a relation between language and materiality that has been widely overlooked. Furthermore, by reconsidering the problem of the autonomous work of art in terms of literature, a central issue in modernist aesthetics is given a greater critical and material relevance as a mode of thinking that is abstract and concrete, rigorous and ambiguous. While examples of this kind of writing can be found in the works of Blanchot and Beckett, the demands that such texts place on readers only confirm the challenges and the possibilities that literary autonomy poses to thought.

Author : Michael Krimper
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031420306
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett Ongoing written by Michael Krimper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415340496
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Very Little-- Almost Nothing written by Simon Critchley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780791433317
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Actuality of Adorno written by Max Pensky and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.