Beckett/Philosophy

With the increased availability of archival documents, including the 266 folio pages (recto and verso) of the philosophy notebooks held at Trinity College Dublin, Beckett criticism has been greatly enhanced, and sometimes chastened, by genetic scholarship, as this anthology [...] attests. -- Andre Furlani Modernism/Modernity Not only do these trovata expand the "grey canon" in Beckett studies, but they also draw attention to vital territories in the interests, language, imagery and forms in Beckett's work-in-(re)gress which respond to, interact with, and echo, philosophical issues across his vast and eclectic readings. -- Erika Mihalysca The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Matthew Feldman is professor in the modern history of ideas at Teesside University. Karim Mamdani is an independent scholar residing in North America and Europe.

Acknowledgments Foreword to the ibidem Press Edition, by Alexander L. Gungov Foreword: Is This the Right Time to Ponder Beckett and Philosophy?, by Alexander L. Gungov Introduction to Beckett/Philosophy, by Matthew Feldman "I am not a philosopher." Beckett and Philosophy: A Methodological and Thematic Overview, by Matthew Feldman On Vico, Joyce, and Beckett, by Donald Phillip Verene "I am not reading philosophy": Beckett and Schopenhauer, by Erik Tonning "Speak of Time, without Flinching... Treat of Space with the Same Easy Grace": Beckett, Bergson and the Philosophy of Space, by David Addyman "Of being-or remaining": Beckett and Early Greek Philosophy, by Peter Fifield Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist Philosophy, by Matthew Feldman Monadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, by Chris Ackerley "The Books are in the Study as Before": Samuel Beckett's Berkeley, by Steven Matthews Beckett's "Guignol" Worlds: Arnold Geulincx and Heinrich von Kleist, by David Tucker Beckett's Critique of Kant, by P.J. Murphy "Eff it": Beckett and Linguistic Skepticism, by Dirk Van Hulle Beckett, Samuel Johnson, and the "Vacuity of Life", by Emilie Morin Beckett and Abstraction, by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson "I can't go on, I'll go on": Beckett's Form of Philosophy, by Kathryn White Beckett and the Refusal of Judgment: The Question of Ethics and the Value of Art, by Mireille Bousquet Conclusion: Beckett in Theses, by Karim Mamdani Information about the Authors and Editors Index of Names