Illness As Method Beckett Kafka Mann Woolf And Eliot

This Work Questions The Problematic Connections Between Illness And Modernity: The Complicated Negotiations Involving The Body Both In Its Physicality And Phenomenology And The Poetics And Praxiality Of Illness. The Project, Which Is Predominantly Conceptual In Nature, For It Does Not See Illness Solely As A Clinical-physical Category (leaning Heavily On The Medical Sciences), But Rather Perspectivizes Its Phenomenology And Pathographical Limits And Manifestations, Lateralizing On Its Critical Correspondences With A Selection Of Modernist Texts Ranging From Virginia Woolf To Samuel Beckett.the Book Unearths Different Possibilitiesrsquo; Of Illness Without Denying Its (quite Natural) Association With Morbidity, Pain, Suffering, Dying And Death. It Looks At Illness And Its Effects On Different Bodies Phenomenologically With The Help Of Some Twentieth-century Philosophers, Including Martin Heidegger, Jean Luc-nancy, Maurice Merleau-ponty, Jean-paul Sartre And Emmanuel Levinas.