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 a...
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| Series: | Studi di italianistica moderna e contemporanea nel mondo anglofono.
Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy) ; 157. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTERONE -- ON DESIRE -- 1.1 What Desire? -- 1.2 Desire as Lack -- 1.3 Freudian Desire -- 1.4 Lacanian Desire -- 1.5 Lévinas and thè Desire ofthè Other -- CHAPTER TWO A PERENNIALLY DULL AND INDISTINCT PAIN: "VAIN LONGING THAT VAIN LONGING GO" -- 2.1 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing" -- 2.2 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing" in thè pessimistic tradition -- 2.3 Leopardi and Beckett withinthè nihilist tradition -- 2.4 "Souffrance" and "Suffering ofbeing" within thè Heideggerian existential tradition and thè Levinasian "Ily a" -- CHAPTER THREE MAKING SUFFERING SUFFERABLE: DESIRE POR THE OTHER IN LEOPARDI AND BECKETT -- 3.1 Lacanian versus Levinasian Desire -- 3.2 Compassion as Pietas to overcome Ataraxia: Desire for thè O/other in Leopardi -- 3.3 Lacanian and Levinasian Desire for thè Other in Endgame -- 3.4 Lacanian and Levinasian Desire for thè Other in Happy Days -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OFNAMES. | |
| 520 | |a 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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