{"product_id":"think-pig-jean-michel-rabatzs-9780823270866","title":"Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRabaté, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForegrounding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Michel Rabaté\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823270866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823270866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2017","brand":"Jean-Michel Rabaté","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372321591551,"sku":"9780823270866","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1544c80-1da4-41bc-b5f2-d8e8cbe7da8a.jpg?v=1732725627","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/think-pig-jean-michel-rabatzs-9780823270866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}