Alain Badiou

Synopsis

Alain Badiou is a rising star whose work on Beckett will set the tone for some time to come. This book is a double first - the first complete collection of all Badiou's work on Beckett, and the first translation of this important material. Badiou presents a Beckett whose work is the work of philosophy itself - a philosophy in the full sense of the word, which works to reduce experience to its essential determinations. Rejecting the stereotype view of Beckett as the dark existentialist of abandoned existence, Badiou focuses rather on what he calls the 'hidden poem' in the prosody and themes of Beckett's work. For Badiou, philosophy expresss itself immanently in culture through the 'procedures of truth' manifested in science, art, politics and love.

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Details
ISBN 1 903083 30 3
Publisher Clinamen
Genre Poetry
Extent 180pp