Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency

by Andrew Gibson

Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet for Badiou philosophy must be integrally affirmative, whilst Beckett apparently commits his art to a work of negation. Beckett and Badiou explores the coherences, contradictions, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199207755
• ISBN13: 9780199207756
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"