The Unhappy Consciousness The Poetic Plight of Samuel Beckett An Inq
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ANALECT A HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME XIII
Editor: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, Mass.
EUGENE F. KAELIN Dept. of Philosophy, Rorida State University, Tallahassee
THE UNHAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS THE POETIC PLIGHT OF SAMUEL BECKETT
An Inquiry at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Literature
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT: HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
Libruy of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kaelin, Eugene Francis, 1926The unhappy consciousness. (Analecta Husserliana ; v. 13) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-Philosophy. 2. Phenomenology and literature. I. Title. II. Series. B3279.H94A129 vol. 13 [PR6003.E282Z5) 81-12137 ISBN-1 3: 978-94-009-8524-7 e-I SBN-1 3: 978-94-009-8522-3 0 0 1: 10.1007/978-94-009-8522-3
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To My Parents, Who Knew, Without Having Read of It, The Truth of Consciousness
THE THEME LITERATURE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PHENOMENOLOGY: The Pessimism/Optimism controversy in the work of Samuel Beckett as viewed by Eugene Kaelin Eugene Kaelin's book appears in the sequence of the research program: Interdisciplinary Phenomenology and literature, which is being carried out by The International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, and follows the forthcoming Volume XII of the Analecta Husserliana series entitled The Philosophical Reflection of Man in Literature. Professor Kaelin plays an important role in this research program and we are happy that he has entrusted his book to us. Proposing the philosophical program for our literature and interdisciplinary phenomenology research, I have attempted to highlight the main perspectives in which literature and philosophy meet.* The enigmatic situation of the human being, the vicissitudes of his existence, his ever repeated efforts to discover his "unique destiny" over against the common doom, present puzzling issues by which both are haunted. To evoke, differentiate and show the multiple variants of answers to these issues is the task of one, while to unravel and to determine their ultimate factors in the Human Condition is that of the other. In some literary works the philosophical quest is in
