Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson
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Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson
This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Humanities
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1041-3545,1573-3645
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-015-9372-2