Beckett's Murphy : Between Spinoza and Occasionalism

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angličtina
Original language name
Beckett's Murphy : Between Spinoza and Occasionalism
Original language description
Beckett's affinity with the Belgian 17th century occasionalist Arnold Geulincx has been widely acknowledged and commented upon in recent years. My contribution takes a closer look at how this philosophical influence translates into Beckett's writing, which is certainly free of philosophical systematicity yet informed by certain basic insights and also particulars images borrowed from philosophical texts. The first part of my paper therefore explains the "Beckettian" appeal of occasionalism as an answer to Cartesian thought. The second part then demonstrates how the knowledge of Geulincx informs several chapters of Beckett's Murphy, including the ending of this novel, but also how it competes with motifs and images borrowed from Geulincx's contemporary - and perhaps acquaintance - Spinoza. In this respect, I wish to show how the (on several occasions explicit) borrowings from Geulincx and Spinoza furnish the novel with two different perspectives on the relation between Murphy's mind and Murphy's body.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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