The book would inspire a fundamental reappraisal of the works of Beckett, challenging the prevailing view that situated Beckett within the series of well-known existential thinkers -Sartre, Camus, Ionesco -who dominated mid-twentieth-century French philosophy. In short, we have that rare and admirable thing in an academic text: an open invitation to create new combinations of thought. (Tony Fisher, Theatre Research International, Vol. 41 (2), 2016)
Deleuze and Beckett offers a valuable summary of existing scholarship in this area and brings many of its leading voices together to create a series of compelling dialogues between Deleuze and Beckett . the collection addresses a wide range of works in both their oeuvres, as well as the authors readings of other artists and philosophers (such as Bergson), and opens up insights into the philosophical frameworks posited by Deleuze and the radically innovative aesthetics of Becketts work. (Anna McMullan, Modern Drama, Vol. 59 (2), 2016)
Introduction; S. E. Wilmer and Audron? Zukauskait?
PART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY
1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann
2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S. E. Gontarski
3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audron? Zukauskait?
PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY
4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett ' 's Gallery of
Moribunds; Ben Keatinge
5. ' 'Till ooze again and on ' ': Textual Desire and the Subject ' 's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze,
Lacan); Isabelle Ost
6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett ' 's Sociendum; Timothy S. Murphy
PART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY
7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman
8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze ' 's Cinema and Beckett ' 's Prose; Garin Dowd
9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan' 's Krapp ' 's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin Gardner
PART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg
11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre ' 's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy
12. ' 'I switch off ' ': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event; Arka Chattopadhyay
Index