Beckett and Ethics Contributor(s): Smith, Russell (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1441151176 ISBN-13: 9781441151179 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | European - French |
Dewey: 848.914 |
Series: Continuum Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.63 lbs) 198 pages |
Themes: - 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? |