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Zakarya Bezdoode

Zakarya Bezdoode

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 2315
Faculty: Faculty of Language and Literature
Address: Faculty of Language and Literature
Phone: داخلی 2475

Research

Title
Critique of Cartesian Philosophy in Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Type
Speech
Keywords
Cartesian, Enlightenment, Beckett, Subject, Mind, Body
Year
2008
Researchers Zakarya Bezdoode

Abstract

This article is analyzing Rene Descartes' philosophy, his ideas about the Subject, knowledge and cognition in the significant play, Endgame, by Samuel Beckett. Descartes' philosophy begins with a meditation on the individual and reaches the analysis of the relationship between mind and body. An analysis of Beckett's works in general and the Endgame in particular, reveals that Beckett has tried to represent such a philosophy in a particular way. Beckett approaches Enlightenment in general and Cartesian philosophy in particular satirically and points to the defects, gaps and the irresolvable dilemmas of the Cartesian philosophy.