In philosophy, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish-born French writer noted for his 1949 Waiting for Godot, an Albert Camus / Soren Kierkegaard stylized absurdism-themed work stepping around the postulate that while inherent meaning might very well exist in the universe, humans are incapable of finding it due to some form of mental or philosophical limitation, according to which humanity is doomed to be faced with the ‘absurd’ or the absolute absurdity of existence in lack of intrinsic purpose; the work is also said to have some type of Sigmund Freud conceptualized id, ego, superego usage employed. [1]
Beckett, beginning with his 1938 novel Murphy, is said to be pervaded with a fascination with entropy and madness. [2] Beckett’s work, in literature thermodynamics, has been classified with the absurd writer Harold Pinter. [3]
Quotes
The following are related quotes:
“Christianity is a mythology with which I am perfectly familiar so I naturally use it.”
— Samuel Beckett (c.1950) [1]
References
1. Waiting for Godot (philosophical) – Wikipedia.
2. Thiher, Allen. (2004). Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature (pg. #). University of Michigan Press.
3. Schneider, Eric D. and Sagan, Dorion. (2005). Into the Cool - Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Lif (pg. 5). The University of Chicago Press.
External links
● Samuel Beckett – Wikipedia.
