This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett`s relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett`s oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion. S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett StudiesThis is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett`s work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.(Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney)
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 in Modernism/Modernity
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"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 in 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 in The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies "The volume as a whole is a considerable success and I believe that, for years to come, it will remain essential for anyone interested in Beckett and philosophy." -- Yoshiki Tajiri, Journal of Beckett Studies, 09/2014
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press. Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.
