| Beckett and Ethics Contributor(s): Smith, Russell (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826498361 ISBN-13: 9780826498366 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: An international team of international contributors examine how Becketts work from the famous siege in the room of 1945-50 might be seen as responding to specific ethical crises of post-war Europe. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2009291398 |
| Series: Continuum Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At first glance, Samuel Beckett's writing-where scenes of violence and cruelty often provide the occasion for an unremittingly bleak comedy-would seem to offer the reader few examples of ethical conduct. However, following the recent ethical turn in critical theory, there has been growing interest in the ethicality of Beckett's work. Following Alain Badiou's highly influential claim for Beckett as essentially an ethical thinker, it is time to ask: What is the relation between Beckett's work and the ethical? Is Beckett's work profoundly ethical in its implications, as both humanist and deconstructionist readings have insisted in their different ways? Or does Beckett's work in some way call into question the entire notion of the ethical? |