{"product_id":"beckett-and-dialectics-eva-ruda-9781350214361","title":"Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing","description":"For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, \u003ci\u003eBeckett and Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the shapes, types, and forms of negation - as in the all-pervasive figures of 'nothing', 'no', 'null', and 'not' - but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout Beckett's work are structured in their use of negativity. These include the relationships between voice and silence, space and void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and repetition and transformation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original analysis lends an important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, to dialectics itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Ruda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350214361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350214361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Eva Ruda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071396573439,"sku":"9781350214361","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fde96b90-6cbb-4d22-b38e-1172f8b09a9b.jpg?v=1685435850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beckett-and-dialectics-eva-ruda-9781350214361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}