Paris

Waiting for Godot and the Great Quarrel

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ID23628002
AuthorsMichael Y Bennett (0000-0002-1311-0669, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages81-101
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWords, Space, and the Audience (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137052599_4
OpenAlexW2475465011
ISBN9781137052599
LanguageEN
References cited13

1952 P aris was not a silent place . Earlier, after the bombs fell on Europe, there was not exactly calm after the storm. Even though a renewed hope in peace briefly followed the end of the war, immediately after there was the overwhelming prospect of rebuilding Europe after the devastation it had endured. 3 As I attempt to show, the nonlinear historical progression following WWII provided 1952 Paris with a situation rife with philosophical conflict. The philosophical (and, in a sense, political) debate that Camus and Sartre had in Les Temps modernes in mid-1952 was indicative of the historical moment, much like the philosophical conversations that Samuel Beckett engaged with in Waiting for Godot. I argue that Waiting for Godot explores the same (epistemological) dilemma that Merleau-Ponty says defined his era: being versus doing. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cartography · Dilemma · Epistemology · Fell · Geography · Literature · Political science · Politics · French Literature and Critical Theory · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism

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