02604nam 2200541 a 450 991081326950332120230828231405.01-383-03468-01-280-75420-60-19-152590-11-4294-7028-3(CKB)1000000000473522(EBL)415111(OCoLC)437092694(SSID)ssj0000109525(PQKBManifestationID)11795023(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109525(PQKBWorkID)10047363(PQKB)10552338(Au-PeEL)EBL415111(CaPaEBR)ebr10271579(CaONFJC)MIL75420(Au-PeEL)EBL7035741(MiAaPQ)EBC415111(EXLCZ)99100000000047352220070611d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeckett and Badiou[electronic resource] the pathos of intermittency /Andrew GibsonOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920775-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-312) and index.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; IndexThe 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 lifelong822.912Gibson Andrew1949-302388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813269503321Beckett and Badiou3993602UNINA