Beckett and Philosophy - AAALC018A

• Title: Beckett and Philosophy
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2016
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.; Einat Adar, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (23.01.2016)

Samuel Beckett has often been considered a philosophical author for two main reasons. First, his work often treats
philosophical questions and refers to specific philosophers, and second, his texts have attracted commentaries
from contemporary philosophers, such as Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badieu. We will look at
several encounters of literature and philosophy in Beckett's writing, in works including Murphy, the Trilogy, and the
late work, alongside philosophical sources in pre-Socratic philosophy, early modern philosophy and the 20th
century.