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Phenomenologically absurd, absurdly phenomenological. Remarks on the theatre of Samuel Beckett

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The absurd in theatre is usually understood as the expression of the fundamental meaninglessness of human existence. The theatre of the absurd brings out the insuperable unfulfilment of human existence and highlights the failure of human’s ability to even know what they intend and what the object of their acts really is. McNeilly and Renaudie’s paper challenges this interpretation of absurdity in theatre, showing that it is unable to account for the particular significance of the experience of the absurd. Describing the complex intertwinement between fulfilment and unfulfilment in Beckett and Fosse’s plays with the help of Husserl’s theory of intention-fulfilment, they put forward a more refined analysis of the particular meaning that characterizes the experiencing of the absurd.
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Pierre-Jean Renaudie, Jodie Mcneilly-Renaudie. Phenomenologically absurd, absurdly phenomenological. Remarks on the theatre of Samuel Beckett. Stuart Grant; Jodie McNeilly; Matthew Wagner. Performance Phenomenology: To The Thing Itself, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.185-202, 2019, 978-3-319-98058-4. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-98059-1_9⟩. ⟨hal-02081154⟩
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