01816cam a2200277 i 4500 151230s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780823270859 9780823270866 SDU PR6003 R112 T 2016 Rabaté, Jean-Michel, Think, pig! : Beckett at the limit of the human / Jean-Michel Rabaté. 1st ed New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 240 p. HKBU Library "This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar crisis--the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes. Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores the whole range of Beckett's plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation that runs from Bataille to Adorno, from Kant and Sade to Badiou. At the same time, he stresses Beckett's inimitable sense of metaphysical comedy. Foregrounding Beckett's decision to write in French, Rabaté inscribes him in a continental context marked by a "writing degree zero" while showing the prescience and ethical import of Beckett's tendency to subvert the "human" through the theme of the animal. Beckett's "declaration of inhuman rights," he argues, offers the funniest mode of expression available to us today"-- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 Criticism and interpretation. 199274 Literature Philosophy. Theater Philosophy. 207590 LITERARY CRITICISM / General. PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. 124499 PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112777 112777 0 0 lcc 0 PR6003 R112 T2016 0 CGB 279481 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 PR6003 R112 T 2016 1000374345 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE