{"product_id":"think-pig-9780823270859","title":"Think Pig","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very few critics have all the qualities and competencies required to engage fully with the entirety Beckett's work in all genres: a detailed familiarity with Beckett's texts in both English and French; a sensitivity to his linguistic, stylistic and thematic manoeuvres; an encyclopaedic knowledge of his intellectual context; an awareness of the range and detail of Beckett studies; and an ability to write with refinement and wit. It is clear from this remarkable book that Jean-Michel Rabate is one of those few.\"--Derek Attridge, University of York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction     1. How to Think Like a Pig     2. The Worth and Girth of an Italian Hoagie     3. The Posthuman, or the Humility of the Earth     4. Burned Toasts and Boiled Lobsters     5. \"Porca Madonna!\": Moving Descartes toward     Geulincx and Proust     6. From an Aesthetics of Nonrelation to an Ethics     of Negation     7. Beckett's Kantian Critiques     8. Dialectics of Enlittlement     9. Bathetic Jokes, Animal Slapstick, and Ethical Laughter     10. Strength to Deny: Beckett between Adorno and Badiou     11. Lessons in Pigsty Latin: The Duty to Speak     12. An Irish Paris Peasant     13. The Morality of Form-A French Story     Coda: Minima Beckettiana     Acknowledgments     Notes     Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528016437591,"sku":"9780823270859","price":79.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823270859.jpg?v=1731870080","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/think-pig-9780823270859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}