Expecting Godot not to Come!

Momeni, Javad

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Abstract:

Beckett, as a typical modern author, adopts a position between subjectivity and objectivity, and in the gap between these two, by focusing on the latter on one hand, represents an image of Lukacs's realistic view and on the other hand, by scrutinizing more precisely, offers a profile of the existentialist view. Beckett's presence itself in this gap inevitably entails a critical representation of both realms. His characters, in confrontation with modern subjectivization, seek refuge to the fragmented reified objectivity leading to desubjectivization, which is in line with Beckett's characters' anxiety and angst of thinking about their existential how-ness. Meanwhile, their denying the past is synonymous with negating Dasein's temporality features, and this ends in the dissolution of their most primary existential feature, projection. The concomitance of these features eventuates in the appearance of characters such as Vladimir and Estragon who evade thinking like a modern subject, that is, a kind of thinking which revolves around a transcendental signified.

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 52)

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81-86

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.52.81

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J. Momeni, "Expecting Godot not to Come!", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 52, pp. 81-86, 2015

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May 2015

Authors:

Javad Momeni

Keywords:

Adorno, Dasein, Desubjectivization, Heidegger, Objectivity, Reification, Subjectivity, Subjectivization, Temporality

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