The Sublime In Kant And Beckett

Author : Bjørn K. Myskja
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110881136
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime in Kant and Beckett written by Bjørn K. Myskja and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's novel Molloy and the question how this work evokes a particular kind of feeling associated with its exhibition of meaninglessness, namely the feeling of the sublime, is the point of departure for this study. Kant's theory of the sublime is interpreted within the framework of his aesthetic and moral theories, suggesting a way to understand the claim to universal validity for aesthetic judgements. Kant claims that the judgement of the sublime serves morality but he fails to provide this link, so a theory of how this aesthetic judgement can contribute to the cultivation of moral character is developed. It is argued that Kant held that art, including narrative art like the novel, can be sublime. Kant's theory of the sublime is shown to be relevant for modern works of art, and the application of this Kantian framework throws new light on the discussion of the moral aspects of Beckett's literary work. According to this account, Molloy is a sublime work of art, and despite its amoral content can serve the reader's moral cultivation.

Author : Bjorn K. Myskja
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime in Kant and Beckett written by Bjorn K. Myskja and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bjørn K. Myskja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788278611791
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The sublime and the ethics of literature : Kant's aesthetic theory and Beckett's Molloy written by Bjørn K. Myskja and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeff Fort
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823254699
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperative to Write written by Jeff Fort and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.

Author : Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 383826701X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett/Philosophy written by Matthew Feldman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.?S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett StudiesThis is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.?Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144117852X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319753991
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics written by Tim Lawrence and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Author : James Carney
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443835382
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett Re-Membered written by James Carney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett Re-Membered showcases some of the most recent scholarship on the Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett. As well as essays on Beckett’s literary output, it contains a section on the philosophical dimension of his work – an important addition, given the profound impact Beckett has had on European philosophy. Rather than attempting to circumscribe Beckett scholarship by advocating a theoretical position or thematic focus, Beckett Re-Membered reflects the exciting and diverse range of critical interventions that Beckett studies continues to generate. In the nineteen essays that comprise this volume, every major articulation of Beckett’s work is addressed, with the result that it offers an unusually comprehensive survey of its target author. Beckett Re-Membered will appeal to any reader who is interested in provocative responses to one of the twentieth century’s most important European writers.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823270874
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think, Pig! written by Jean-Michel Rabaté and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, 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, Rabaté 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.

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191520039
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kantian Sublime written by Paul Crowther and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-07-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This revival, however, has not so far encompassed Kant's aesthetic of the sublime. This neglect is unfortunate because, amongst Continental philosophers, the Kantian sublime is currently receiving widespread discussion in debates about the nature of postmodernism. Paul Crowther thus breaks new ground by providing what is probably the first monograph in any language to be devoted exclusively to Kant's theory of the sublime.