刘爱英编著的《塞缪尔·贝克特--见证身体之在/外教社博学文库》从身体理论的视角,对贝克特戏剧作品中的身体进行了多维度、跨学科的考察,试图揭示剧作中肉体之在的哲学意义、身体的现象学意义、身体作为社会建构的产物所承载的社会和文化讯息、身体的政治化问题以及身体负载的政治和权力信息。
刘爱英编著的《塞缪尔·贝克特--见证身体之在/外教社博学文库》尝试从身体理论话语出发,对贝克特的戏剧进行跨学科、多维度的综合研究。《塞缪尔·贝克特--见证身体之在/外教社博学文库》主要依托米歇尔·福柯及伊莱恩·斯佳利的理论主张,对贝克特戏剧中“身体问题”的呈现与再现进行全面、细致、深入的考察。在哲学、现象学、社会学、政治学和文化学交织而成的知识体系中,作者探索了肉体之在的哲学意义、怪异的人体表现手法和沉重的肉身必经的生老病死的问题、身体作为社会建构的产物和欲望对象的问题以及身体的政治化等问题。著作吸纳了国内外研究的前沿成果,视野开阔、信息量大,是在社会历史文化的.宏观景象中对贝克特戏剧进行的全面反思。
Introduction
Chapter One The Body as a Philosophical Problematic
I. The mind-body split
II. The despised body
III. Beckett's caricature: the degrading representations
of the body
IV. The trope of onwardness
Chapter Two The Body as a Physiological Problematic
I. Birth astride of a grave: the tragic lot of all fleshy bodies
II. The visually shocking body
III. The physiologically worsening body
IV. The Beckettian body as an aesthetic body
Chapter Three The Body as a Social Problematic
I. The social construction of the body: a sociological perspective
II. The sexed and gendered body
III. The engendered body
IV. The socialized body
Chapter Four The Body as a Political Problematic
I.The politicization ofthe body
II.Political victims in the real world:Becke~’S politicized
theater
Ⅲ.The victimized body:punishment through torture
IV.The victimized body:heteronomy,interrogation,
torture.and surveillance
V.The body as the lack
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix:List of Beckett’S Major Dramatic Works