Waiting as closure or radical opening

What is it about?

Is waiting a passive condition or an enabling activity? The paper discuss this issue in the context of Jacque Derrida's understanding of 'messianism' and the 'messianic' in relation to plays By Beckett and Friel

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Why is it important?

The paper reconsiders the idea of waiting placing it in a philosophical and political context and thus develops an approach to the dramatic texts that foregrounds unexpected affinities between the two playwrights

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