Matthew Feldman Knihy

The collection of essays delves into the impact of various ideologies and religions on propaganda and political discourse in post-Great War Europe and the US. It analyzes Ezra Pound's fascist conversion in Mussolini's Italy, alongside figures like Martin Heidegger and Anders Behring Breivik. The work also explores communism and liberalism through notable thinkers such as Thomas Merton and Albert Camus, addressing themes of modern warfare, political terrorism, and genocide, including Stalinist gulags and the Iraq War.

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent „empirical turn“ in Beckett studies. Characterized, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett`s early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyze his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. Falsifying Beckett thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century`s leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett’s writing as well as „historicist“ scholars and critics of modernism more generally.

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett`s relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett`s oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.? S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett Studies This is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett`s work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.? Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using ‘doublespeak’, aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately crafted slogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right’s attempts at ‘repackaging’ contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstream European and American tastes.