
Beckett and Derrida
James Martell(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 19. December 2024
Book
Hardback
74 pages
978-1-009-49436-6 (ISBN)
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Uncannily similar projects, Beckett's and Derrida's oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers whose main language of expression was 'adopted' or 'imposed', this Element proposes a systematic reading of their main points of connection. Focusing on their engagement with the intricacies of beginnings and origins, on genetic grounds or surfaces analogous to the Platonic khora, and on their similar critiques of the aporias of sovereignty, it exposes the reasons why multiple readers, like Coetzee, consider Derridean deconstruction a philosophical mirror of Beckett's literary achievements.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
272 gr
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978-1-009-49436-6 (9781009494366)
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Beckett and Derrida
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12/2024
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Content
Introduction; 1. General writing; 2. Khora; 3. Hauntologies; 4. Living on; 5. Deconstructing the sovereign subject; Conclusion; Bibliographies.