Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett
This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a fo...
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2022
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| description | This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings). |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-821162025-03-15T07:16:51Z Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings). 2022-06-02T04:04:12Z 2022-06-02T04:04:12Z 2022-05-31T10:26:03Z 2016 book ONIX_20220531_9788864534060_594 OCN: 1033690068 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55310 9788864534060 9788864534053 9788864534077 9788892732315 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82116 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55310/1/9788864534060.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55310/1/9788864534060.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55310/1/9788864534060.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-406-0 10.36253/978-88-6453-406-0 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788864534060 9788864534053 9788864534077 9788892732315 176 Florence open access |
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