1st Edition

A Taste for the Negative Beckett and Nihilism

By Shane Weller Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist. On the one side are figures such as Georg Lukacs; on the other, some of the most influential philosophers and literary theorists of the post-war era, from Theodor Adorno to Alain Badiou. Taking as his... Read more

Preface on Translation; Introduction; The Naïve Calculations of a Theorist; Ubi Nihil Vales: Body, Mind and Utterance; Habitable Spaces, Havens of Hope; Exacerbations and the Question of Remains; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Shane Weller