Alain Badiou ; edited by Alberto Toscano and Nina Power ; preface by Alain Badiou ; introduction by Andrew Gibson.
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Manchester :
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Clinamen,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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164 pages ;
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23 cm.
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Dissymetries
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The writing of the generic -- 2. Timeless desire -- 3. Being, existence, thought: prose and concept -- 4. What happens -- Postface -- Badiou, Beckett and contemporary criticism / Andrew Gibson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book is a double first - the first collection together of all of Badiou's work on Beckett, and the first translation of this important material. Badiou presents a Beckett whose work is the work of philosophy itself - a philosophy in the full sense of the word, which works to reduce experience to its essential determinations. These essays together furnish a meditation on the developments of Beckett's ideas, always philosophically allusive, from first works through The Unnameable (a solipsist impasse, claims Badiou, from which it would take Beckett ten years to escape), to a final engagement with questions of the Other and Love.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation.