{"product_id":"freedom-and-negativity-in-beckett-and-adorno","title":"Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince his notorious 1961 lecture, \u0026amp;#39;Trying to Understand Endgame\u0026amp;#39;, Theodor W. Adorno\u0026amp;#39;s name has been frequently coupled with that of Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose paths crossed all too fleetingly. Specifically the book argues for a preoccupation with the concept of freedom in Beckett\u0026amp;#39;s works - one which situates him as a profoundly radical and even political writer. Adorno\u0026amp;#39;s own more explicit reconceptualization of freedom and its scarcity in modernity offers a unique lens through which to examine the way Beckett\u0026amp;#39;s works preserve a minimal space of freedom that acts in opposition to an unfree social totality. While acknowledging both the biographical encounters between Adorno and Beckett and the influence Beckett\u0026amp;#39;s writings had on Adorno\u0026amp;#39;s aesthetics, Natalie Leeder goes further to establish a dialogue between their intellectual positions, working with a range of texts from both writers and seeking insight in Adorno\u0026amp;#39;s less familiar works, as well as his magnum opera, Aesthetic Theory and Negative Dialectics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691028214127,"sku":"9781786603203","price":272.6,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1786603209.jpg?v=1771524938","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/freedom-and-negativity-in-beckett-and-adorno","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}