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Beckett and Dialectics
For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity. With contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, Beckett and Dialectics not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the shapes, types, and forms of negation – as in the all-pervasive figures of 'nothing', 'no', 'null', and 'not' – but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout Beckett's work are structured in their use of negativity. These include the relationships between voice and silence, space and void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and repetition and transformation. This original analysis lends an important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, to dialectics itself.
Abolishing Freedom
Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination. Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors—Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud—defended not only freedom but also predestination and divine providence. By systematically investigating this mostly overlooked and seemingly paradoxical fact, Ruda demonstrates how real freedom conceptually presupposes the assumption that the worst has always already happened; in short, fatalism. In this brisk and witty interrogation of freedom, Ruda argues that only rationalist fatalism can cure the contemporary sickness whose paradoxical name today is freedom.
Slavoj Zizek and Dialectical Materialism
This book is the first volume to bring together the most prominent scholars who work on Slavoj i ek's philosophy, examining and interrogating his understanding of dialectical materialism. It deserves to be thoroughly and systematically elaborated because it attempts to propose a new foundation for dialectical materialism.
Räume, Orte, Kollektive
Im Nirgendwo beginnt die Desertion: Fatzer scheißt auf die Ordnung der Welt und seine Kameraden machen es ihm zunächst nach. Brechts Fragment, das vom Untergang des Egoisten Johann Fatzer berichtet, untersucht in immer neuen Ansätzen auch das Verhältnis von (Un-)Ordnung und (Ent-)Ortung sowie ihre Potentialität für die Verhandlung des Kollektiven. So steht der vermeintlichen Offenheit der Straße als eines Orts des Kollektivs und der Menge in Fatzers Rundgang durch Mülheim, mit dem er die Stadt vermisst, die Beengtheit der Kellerwohnung gegenüber, in der die Deserteure auf die Revolution warten und sich an die Gurgel gehen. "Die Erkenntnis kann an einem anderen Ort gebraucht werden, ...
