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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778353903321

Autore

Dowd Garin

Titolo

Abstract machines [[electronic resource] ] : Samuel Beckett and philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari / / Garin Dowd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

1-282-26531-8

9786612265310

94-012-0442-X

1-4356-1294-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Faux titre, , 0167-9392 ; ; no. 295

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Note on references -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Shadow Hospitality: Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari -- Beckett’s Abstract Machines: from Murphy to The Lost Ones -- From Monadology to Nomadology: Leibniz, Deleuze, Beckett -- Matter, Judgement and Immanence in How It Is -- “Vasts apart”: Deleuze, Phenomenology and Worstward Ho -- Beckett’s ‘Dislocations’ -- “l’insurrection des molécules” -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

What can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a ‘schizoanalytic genealogy’ derived from the authors of L’Anti-Œdipe , Garin Dowd’s Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari offers an innovative response to this much debated question. The author focuses on zones of encounter and thresholds of engagement between Beckett’s writing and a range of philosophers (among them Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant) and philosophical concepts. Beckett’s writing impacts in a variety of ways on Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, and, in particular, resonates with Deleuze’s contributions to the history of philosophy (in books such as Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque ), and his ‘critical and clinical’ approach to literature. Furthermore, the books co-written with



Guattari, concerned as they are with the ‘molecularization’ of the discipline of philosophy in the name of ‘thinking otherwise’, reveal themselves in a new light when explored in conjunction with Beckett’s œuvre . With its arresting perspectives on a wide range of Beckett’s works, Abstract Machines will appeal to academics and postgraduate students interested in the philosophical aspects of his writing. Its engagement with alternative contributions to the question of Beckett and philosophy, including that of Alain Badiou, renders it a timely and provocative intervention in contemporary debates on the relationship between literature and philosophy, both within the field of Beckett studies and beyond.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958484003321

Autore

Agus Aharon R. E (Aharon Ronald Ellis), <1943->

Titolo

The binding of Isaac and Messiah : law, martyrdom, and deliverance in early rabbinic religiosity / / Aharon (Ronald E.) Agus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

0-7914-9436-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 327 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Judaica

Disciplina

296.09015

Soggetti

Martyrdom - Judaism

Messiah

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 297-298) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Partial List of Abbreviations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""The Mother of the Sons""; ""Martyrdom and the Law""; ""The Binding of Isaac""; ""Honi ha-Me' aggel""; ""R. Hanina ben Dosa""; ""Nahum ish Gamzo and R. Hananiah ben Teradyon""; ""If I Am Here, All Are Here""; ""If Not Now, When? Repentance""; ""Pangs of Messiah""; ""The Binding of Messiah: Messiah Ben Joseph""; ""When the Messiah""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""General



Index""; ""Index of Sages"" ""Index of Biblical Sources"" ""Index of Rabbinic Sources""

Sommario/riassunto

The author provides an interpretation of the words of Jews living during the intertestamental period and through the third century, including several hassidim. A hermeneutics grounded in the perception of early Rabbinic texts as sharing in events rather than as linguistically autonomous is used.  The phenomenology of Jewish martyrdom is read as an acting-out of the Binding of Isaac. The search leads into the question of the bindingness of the La. The The religious soul's passion for the revelation of Law is followed out in its path of temptation to martyrdom. A grand drama of sacrifice and messianic yearnings is thereby unearthed. Aharon (Ronald E.) Agus is lecturer on rabbinic thinking at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.