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Beckett and Ethics

Beckett and Ethics

Smith, Russell
Russell Smith

Paperback

Series: Continuum Literary Studies, Book 181

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441151176
ISBN13: 9781441151179
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Dec 22 2011
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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?

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