Abstract:Think, Pig!" In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Pozzo fires this command at Lucky, his tethered slave, who responds with an outburst of logorrhea that reduces Western philosophy to gobbledygook. 1 Pozzo's command raises many of the questions that Jean-Michel Rabaté investigates in this learned and inventive study of Beckett among the philosophers. Thinking, as enshrined in the Cartesian cogito, is usually regarded as the faculty that distinguishes the human from the animal. But what if thinking is a Circean encha… Show more
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