Beckett/philosophy

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.

Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the ibidem Press Edition -- Foreword: Is This the Right Time to Ponder Beckett and Philosophy? -- Introduction to Beckett/Philosophy -- “I am not a philosopher.� Beckett and Philosophy: A Methodological and Thematic Overview -- On Vico, Joyce, and Beckett -- “I am not reading philosophy�: Beckett and Schopenhauer -- “Speak of Time, without Flinching�Treat of Space with the Same Easy Grace�: Beckett, Bergson and the Philosophy of Space -- “Of being�or remaining�: Beckett and Early Greek Philosophy

Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist PhilosophyMonadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- “The Books are in the Study as Before�: Samuel Beckett�s Berkeley -- Beckett�s “Guignol� Worlds: Arnold Geulincx and Heinrich von Kleist -- Beckett�s Critique of Kant -- “Eff it�: Beckett and Linguistic Skepticism -- Beckett, Samuel Johnson, and the “Vacuity of Life� -- Beckett and Abstraction -- “I can�t go on, I�ll go on�: Beckett�s Form of Philosophy

Beckett and the Refusal of Judgment: The Question of Ethics and the Value of ArtConclusion: Beckett in Theses -- In…