{"product_id":"think-pig-beckett-at-the-limit-of-the-human-paperback-softback-9780823270866","title":"Think, Pig!; Beckett at the Limit of the Human (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823270866","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThink, Pig!\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBeckett at the Limit of the Human\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823270866\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.446 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716412928280,"sku":"9780823270866","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/think-pig-beckett-at-the-limit-of-the-human-paperback-softback-9780823270866","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}