{"product_id":"9781350136830","title":"Beckett and Dialectics Be it Something or Nothing","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBeckett and Dialectics\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBe it Something or Nothing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEva Heubach\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEva Heubach\u003c\/b\u003e is a Visiting Assistant at the Graduate School of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures) at Yale University, USA. She is also a fellow at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and a doctoral candidate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 February 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350136830\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.48\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332856479884,"sku":"9781350136830","price":121.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9f6bebb5-0af2-4dcc-aefb-0924f1261515.jpg?v=1783606915","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350136830","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}