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Adj.1.presocratic - before the time of Socrates


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2) Like Derrida, most readers, or spectators, of Samuel Beckett's work would not have failed to notice a sense of bewilderment and profound inadequacy whenever engaged in a dialogue with these texts, insofar as they seem to reflect one of the author's favourite quotations, the preSocratic 'nothing is more real than nothing'.
In order to overcome the crucial problem of a disorderly universe, for the presocratic philosophers, the duality between reality and appearance became a concept, which was 'good to think with'.
 
 
 
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