Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature
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Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, c2007
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary writers of our time, Asja Szafraniec argues that the shared feature of literary works as Derrida understands them is a double, juridical-economical gesture, and that one aspect of this notion (the juridical) is more hospitable to Beckett's oeuvre than the other. She then discusses other contemporary philosophical approaches to Beckett, including those of Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, and Alain Badiou. The book offers an innovative analysis of Derrida's approach to literature, as well as an overview of current philosophical approaches to contemporary literature, and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction 1 1. The Question of Literature 000 2. A Singular Odyssey 000 3. Beckett, Derrida and the Ordinary 000 4. Beckett's "Exhausted" Archives 000 5. Singular Points of Transaction (I): The Subject 000 6. Singular Points of Transaction (II): "What Are Poets for?" The Authority of Literature 000 7. Singular Points of Transaction (III): "Wanting in Inanity." Negativity, Language and "God" in Beckett 000 Concluding Remarks 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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