The metaphysical vision
Subtitle: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's Own way to make use of it
By: Ulrich Pothast ; translated by Ulrich Pothast.
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub., Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781433102868
Subjects: Schopenhauer, Arthur, -- 1788-1860 -- Aesthetics; Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989; Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century
Work titles: Eigentlich metaphysische Tätigkeit.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metaphysical vision; title: Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student; title: Intentions and limits; title: Metaphysics of art and life; title: On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view; title: Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics; title: Dissolution of self and creation of art; title: The truly metaphysical activity of this life; title: Idea and sensory perception; title: Symbols trivial; title: Realism vulgar; title: Every thing beautiful; title: Genius objective; title: Bliss, not just pleasure; title: Will-less, not just disinterested; title: Music; title: Tragedy and the vanity of life; title: Denial of the will-to-live; title: Affirmation of the will-to-live; title: Happiness negative; title: Suffering productive; title: The metaphysical drama; title: Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape; title: The primacy of nothingness; title: Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in proust; title: True reality and caricature of reality; title: Idea versus concept; title: Causality, time, will; title: Habit; title: Two kinds of memory; title: Vulgarity; title: Death of habit waking madness; title: Purity, impurity; title: The necessity of art; title: Schopenhauer made use of; title: Schopenhauer altered; title: The proustian equation, the proustian solution; title: Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus; title: Desert of loneliness, no morality; title: Existence of the artist; title: On some details in Beckett's literary work; title: Murphy; title: I am not of the big world, I am of the little world; title: Vision; title: Will-lessness, yearning for nothing; title: Moran; title: Remnants of a pensum; title: A work which will subsist; title: Finality without end; title: Images of that kind the will cannot revive; title: Dispossessed of self; title: The unnamable; title: What if we we're one and the same after all; title: There is no pronoun for me; title: I have a pensum to discharge; title: I'm all these words; title: I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist; title: Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov; title: In a cage out of time and space; title: In a single night; title: You pollute the air; title: Is it not time for my pain-killer?; title: This is not boring you I hope; title: Why will you never let me sleep?; title: Old endgame lost of old; title: The form of life is the endless present; title: Since that's the way we're playing it, let's play it that way; title: Schopenhauer made use of; title: Schopenhauer altered; title: Schopenhauer left behind.