Beckett, Deleuze and Performance: A Thousand Failures and a Thousand Inventions

by Daniel Koczy

Book Overview

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030070727
• ISBN13: 9783030070724
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"