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Antropologia filosòfica i literatura: G. Anders interpreta S. Beckett

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Abstract: This paper is intended to stress the importance of studying the relationship between philosophy and literature, or, to put it more precisely, between philosophical anthropology and contemporary dramaturgy. To this purpose, it analyses a deep text that has gone largely unnoticed up to now, namely the interpretation, elaborated in 1955 by the writer and thinker Günther Anders, of one of the most radical and innovative revolutions in contemporary drama: Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot). In addition to introducing the life and work of Anders’s, this paper presents the different sections of the central chapter of his most important work, Die Antiquierheit des Menschen 1. Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution (1st ed. 1956), which are devoted to the revealing and unbending anthropology contained in that singular dramatic masterpiece.