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"Analytical Philosophy and Modernism: Beckett's 'Company' and the Viennese Logical Positivists" | |
MATTHEW IAN GIBSON![]() ![]() | |
2022-11-25 | |
Conference Name | "Belated, Beyond and Out of Place" |
Conference Date | 2022-11-23 - 2022-11-25 |
Conference Place | University of Macau |
Abstract | Most scholars who have observed the philosophical underpinnings of Beckett’s later writing have centred on the similarities between the ideas suggested in his work and the well-documented interest in Guelincks and Malebranche: skeptical, occasionalist philosophers who were reacting the Cartesian Cogito. Likewise more recent scholars have tended to see parallels between Postmodern and Deconstructivist Theory and Beckett’s work, even though he himself probably never read the work of prominent theorists like Derrida and Lyotard. The contention of this paper is that late works by Beckett, including Ill Seen, Ill Said and Company, draw heavily from both the rhetoric and ideas of Analytical Philosophy. Above all the contention is that Beckett’s use of “verification”, “the globe” and “the Voice” in Company, all present the self’s quest to find regularity in experience in that text, speaks of a knowledge not just of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (which he famously read but publicly rejected), but also of the ideas of Moritz Schlick, radical skeptical thinker and Logical Positivist. Such a paper will also hopefully prove that his influences were more diverse than people have supposed. |
Keyword | Beckett, Analytical Philosophy, Verification, Validity |
Language | 英語English |
Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | Faculty of Arts and Humanities DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
Affiliation | University of Macau |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | MATTHEW IAN GIBSON. "Analytical Philosophy and Modernism: Beckett's 'Company' and the Viennese Logical Positivists"[C], 2022. |
APA | MATTHEW IAN GIBSON.(2022). "Analytical Philosophy and Modernism: Beckett's 'Company' and the Viennese Logical Positivists". . |
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