Humility, Self-Awareness, and Religious Ambivalence: Another Look at Beckett's ‘Humanistic Quietism’

This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jobs.2014.0104. This article provides a commentary on the opaque and often contradictory arguments of ‘Humanistic Quietism’, Samuel Beckett's 1934 review of Thomas MacGreevy's Poems. Using Beckett's complicated relationship to both his own Protestant upbringing and the Catholicism of MacGreevy as a starting point, the article proposes new ways of understanding Beckett's ambivalent comments about MacGreevy's interiority, prayer-like poetry, humility, and quietism. It draws on Beckett's comments on Rilke, André Gide, and Arnold Geulincx, as well as his familiarity with Dante, to unpack the review's dense allusions and make sense of Beckett's aesthetic allegiances. </jats:p

Gnoti Seautón, Sive Arnoldi Geulincs Ethica : Post tristia authoris fata Omnibus suis partibus in lucem edita, & tam seculi hujus, quam atheorum quorundam Philosophorum impietati, scelestisque moribus, quanquam Specioso ut plurimum Virtutis prætextu larvatis, opposita per Philarethum

Arnoldus GeulincsEnthält Ethicae Tractatus Primus de Virtute et Primis ejus Proprietatibus..., sowie Ethicae Tractatus secundus, de virtutibus vulgo dictis Particularibus.Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Lugd. Batav. Apud Adrianum Severini. [M] [D] C LXXV.Signaturformel: *12, [1], A-M12, N5, a7, b-h12, i1

[Gnōthi seauton, Sive Ethica]

Layoutgetreues Digitalisat der Ausg.: Amstelodami : Janssonio-Waesbergius, 1696. - Editio novissima ab innumeris mendis, quibus priores scatebant, accuratissimè emendata. Standort: Universität Marburg, Bibliothek Religionswissenschaft (510) Signatur: 492 Bemerkungen: Vollständiger Titel: Arnoldi Geulincs ... Gnōthi seauton, Sive Ethica : Post tristia authoris fata Omnibus suis partibus in lucem edita, et tam seculi hujus, quàm Atheorum quorundam Philosophorum impietati, scelestisque moribus, quanquam speciose ut plurimum Virtutis prætextu larvatis, opposita Per Philarethum (Bibliothek Wittgenstein

[Gnōthi seauton, Sive Ethica]

Layoutgetreues Digitalisat der Ausg.: Amstelodami : Janssonio-Waesbergius, 1696. - Editio novissima ab innumeris mendis, quibus priores scatebant, accuratissimè emendata. Standort: Universität Marburg, Bibliothek Religionswissenschaft (510) Signatur: 492 Bemerkungen: Vollständiger Titel: Arnoldi Geulincs ... Gnōthi seauton, Sive Ethica : Post tristia authoris fata Omnibus suis partibus in lucem edita, et tam seculi hujus, quàm Atheorum quorundam Philosophorum impietati, scelestisque moribus, quanquam speciose ut plurimum Virtutis prætextu larvatis, opposita Per Philarethum (Bibliothek Wittgenstein

Disputationes metaphysicae

Z języka łacińskiego przełożyła, wstępem i przypisami opatrzyła Joanna Usakiewicz. Przekładu dokonano na podstawie Disputationes metaphysicae, w: Arnoldi Geulincx Antverpiensis opera philosophica, recognovit J. P. N. Land, Hagae Comitum apudMartinum Nijhoff, 1891–1893, vol. II