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Beckett and Derrida

Beckett and Derrida

Beckett and Derrida

James Martell, Lyon College
December 2024
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Paperback
9781009414395

    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 khôra, 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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    December 2024
    Hardback
    9781009494366
    74 pages
    235 × 159 × 12 mm
    0.26kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. General writing
    • 2. Khôra
    • 3. Hauntologies
    • 4. Living on
    • 5. Deconstructing the sovereign subject
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliographies.
      Author
    • James Martell , Lyon College