Beckett after Wittgenstein - Softcover

Furlani, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810132168 ISBN 13: 9780810132160

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett’s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher’s relevance to the Nobel laureate’s work is scarcely acknowledged and seldom elucidated. Beckett after Wittgenstein is the first book to examine Beckett’s formative encounters with, and profound affinities to, Wittgenstein’s thought, style, and character.

While a number of influential critics, including the philosopher Alain Badiou, have discerned a transition in Beckett’s work beginning in the late 1950s, Furlani is the first to identify and clarify how this change occurs in conjunction with the writer’s sustained engagement with Wittgenstein’s thought on, for example, language, cognition, subjectivity, alterity, temporality, belief, hermeneutics, logic, and perception. Drawing on a wealth of Beckett’s archival materials, much of it unpublished, Furlani’s study reveals the extent to which Wittgenstein fostered Beckett’s views and emboldened his purposes.

About this title

About the Author:

ANDRE FURLANI is an associate professor in the department of English at Concordia University, Montreal.

Review:

"In this compelling and relevatory study, Furlani deftly shows how Samuel Beckett expresses in the literary domain what Ludwig Wittgenstein articulates in the philosophical domain." —CHOICE

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0810132168
• ISBN 13: 9780810132160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264