Samuel Beckett and Science
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Samuel Beckett and Science: (Historicizing Modernism)

Samuel Beckett and Science: (Historicizing Modernism)


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From pre-Socratics to the literature of his own days, Samuel Beckett spent his early years absorbing all he could of Western European literature, art, philosophy and science. Yet his interest in scientific disciplines and methodologies, essential to his writing, has been largely neglected. Samuel Beckett and Science returns to the empirical roots of his thought. Ackerley works closely with Beckett's 1930s notebooks, tracing the chronological movement in his writings from ancient Greek science to theories of relativity. These notebooks, where extensive readings are recorded, underlie Ackerley's argument that the paradoxes informing the first works are essential to understanding Beckett's later support of ignorance. Focusing on physics – both in Beckett's sense of his physical body and his sense of time and motion in the context of his writing – enables Ackerley to set the physical, biological and mathematical sciences next to literature, philosophy, religion and epistemology: an inter-disciplinary approach that crucially illustrates how the scientific method provides an effective procedure for exploring Beckettian uncertainty.

Table of Contents:
1. 'The Monad in Space and Time' 2. The Metaphysical Impasse 3. Murphy and Irrationality 4. Watt and the Attempt to "Eff the Ineffable" 5. The Trilogy and the Great Writing 6. Waiting for Godot and Endgame 7. Failing Again 8. The Final Work Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Chris Ackerley is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781441128768
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Historicizing Modernism
  • ISBN-10: 144112876X
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2021
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 192


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