Beckett and Helms absolutized predecessors’ principles into necessity free of the individual

Evidence

This subjective voice, with its searching and probing towards a distant and perhaps non-existent goal, is so elementary that it becomes utterly generalized: it is the voice of human desolation as such. Interior monologue in the contemporary French novel is not returning to individualism; it is going deeper, acquiring general validity and an archetypal quality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2256 (#complicates, via linked claim)

“Common sense” has been treated in various ways. Sometimes it has even been taken as the base of philosophy itself. Alternatively it has been criticised from the point of view of another philosophy. In reality, in either case, the result was to transcend a particular form of common sense and to create another which was closer to the conception of the world of the leading group. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1507 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

The special conditions which had led to emancipation, though well known to everybody concerned, were now hidden as if they were a great and terrible secret. The edict itself, on the other hand, was conceived as the last and, in a sense, the most shining achievement of change from a feudal state into a nation-state and a society where henceforth there would be no special privileges whatsoever. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 129 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno ranked Beckett and Helms as serial successors to Kafka and Joyce — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2238; Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1507; Beckett’s subjective interior monologue becomes universal rather than individualist — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2256 (+2 more)

Related

• Beckett’s subjective interior monologue becomes universal rather than individualist (similarity 0.81)
• Postwar literary avant-garde aimed at necessity freed from the individual. (similarity 0.79)
• Adorno judged Helms’s philology-based associative text more avant-garde than Beckett. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Beckett’s subjective interior monologue becomes universal rather than individualist #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2256
• Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group #responds-to (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1507
• Emancipation’s practical motivations were deliberately concealed behind universal principle #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 129
• Adorno saw Beckett and Helms as surpassing Kafka and Joyce. #qualifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2238