Titlebook: Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe; Michiko Tsushima,Yoshiki Tajiri,Mariko Hori Tanaka Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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Beckett’s Monadology and the Anti-Catastrophic Aesthetics. I regard this as Beckett’s anti-catastrophic aesthetics, and explore its origins in Leibniz’s monadology. While Windelband’s history of philosophy awakened Beckett to the importance of Leibniz’s metaphysics, Beckett felt a strong affinity with what he called the ‘baroque solipsism’. On the substra

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Beckett’s Sense of History in the Age of Catastrophe early life, between 1906 and 1945, maps near-perfectly onto the period historians have labelled ‘The Age of Catastrophe’. With the rise of fascism, global economic collapse, and two world wars, the Age of Catastrophe was the cacophonous background to Beckett’s formative years, a period in which mod

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Catastrophe and Everyday Life in Samuel Beckettuclear age. First, I will examine a typical representation of the everyday in the popular ‘post-apocalyptic’ imagination of the nuclear age, where the everyday can be powerfully resistant to catastrophe. While Beckett’s . shares the same post-apocalyptic sensibility, it only presents the emptiness o

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Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophece’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ does not register readily in narrative models concerned with spectacular events and the tempos and logics of crisis, I examine Beckett’s attention to what remains in a paradoxically stuck and ongoing time. Suggesting that Be

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Tickling Your Catastrophe, or Beckett’s Laughing Antistrophekett’s late modernist concept of catastrophe should not be considered as ushering in an inevitably tragic fate, for the worst catastrophe is not death but the inability to die. A confrontation with catastrophe should lead to a decision to think through the death drive, a detour that seems indispensable to survive.

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