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" The metaphysical vision : "
Ulrich Pothast
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BL
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642900
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| Uniform Title
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Eigentlich metaphysische Tätigkeit.English
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Pothast, Ulrich
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| Title & Author
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The metaphysical vision : : Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's Own way to make use of it /\ Ulrich Pothast
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.,, c2008
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xiv, 246 p. ;; 24 cm
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1433102862 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9781433102868 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-239) and index
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| Contents
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Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? -- This is not boring you I hope -- Why will you never let me sleep? -- Old endgame lost of old -- The form of life is the endless present -- Since that's the way we're playing it, let's play it that way -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- Schopenhauer left behind
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Schopenhauer, Arthur,1788-1860-- Aesthetics
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989
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Aesthetics, Modern-- 19th century
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| Dewey Classification
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700.1
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B3148.P6613 2008
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B3148.P6613 2008
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