Withholding assent : Beckett in the light of stoic ethics

Anthony Uhlmann, Russell Smith

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[On 9 June 1993, a news story by Andrew Gumbel of Reuters, one among many written concerning these events, was electronically transferred to English language newspapers around the world. The story begins: A lone gunman, described as a failed author desperate for world fame, today killed a wartime French police chief who deported Jews to Nazi death camps. (Gumbel) This chapter argues that the events surrounding Didier’s assassination of Bousquet, and Beckett’s plays Rough for theatre II, Rough for radio II, Catastrophe and Eleutheria, might all be analysed via reference to key concepts drawn from Stoic ethics; that both the real event of the assassination and the fictional events of the plays might be understood through the notion of the ‘state of being’ or ‘disposition’ of a soul, and that these concepts might be further drawn into relation with Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of ‘social subjection’ and ‘machinic enslavement’.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationBeckett and Ethics
    Place of PublicationU.K
    PublisherContinuum
    Pages57-67
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Print)9780826498366
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Keywords

    • philosophy
    • Stoics
    • French drama
    • ethics
    • Beckett
    • Samuel
    • 1906-1989

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