• Home (Essays upon S. Beckett's theatre)
• How and why Samuel Beckett deceived the critics of Waiting for Godot
• Samuel Beckett stripped bare by his authors, even
• Samuel Beckett's Endgame : against Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
• The end of Art and the Advent of a money-governed world in Waiting for Godot 
• "Life : a game that always gets lost." For Endgame, Samuel Beckett got the idea from the French critic Sainte-Beuve. 
• Beckett's theatre : the character as a philosopheme
• Endgame: Beckett and Aristotle
• Evil in Beckett's theatre
• Master and disciple in Beckett's theatre
• Waiting for Godot: Beckett and Proust
• Wainting for Godot and The Temptation of Saint Antony (Flaubert)
• Beckett's Miscellanies

Gérard Piacentini
Samuel Beckett's Endgame : against Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind

Samuel Beckett collates the theme of the master and the follower with the theme of the master and the slave which Hegel develops in Phenomenology of Mind. The play begins with the protagonists in the situation of the lordship and bondage dialectic : Hamm is the lord, Clov is the bondsman.

Does Clov get free through work ? In fact, Clov gets free because he finds a father as seen in previous papers. This father, settled in theater by Corneille, has been despised by playwrights who followed… Samuel Beckett rehabilitates him by underlining the lack of consistency of the hegelian theory of liberation by work.