Beckett and Ethics

Russell Smith is Lecturer in English at the Australian National University

• Introduction, Russell Smith; 1. 'We have our being in justice': Critical Theory, Abstraction and Beckett's 'Ethics', David Cunningham (University of Westminster); 2. 'A 'suitable engine of destruction'? Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx's Ethics, Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton); 3. Withholding Assent: Beckett in the light of Stoic Ethics, Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney); 4. Post-war Beckett: Resistance, Commitment or Communist Krap?, Jackie Blackman (Trinity College Dublin); 5. A World without Monsters: Beckett and the Ethics of Cruelty, Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Sydney); 6. The Anethics of Desire: Beckett, Racine, Sade, Shane Weller (University of Kent); 7. 'So Fluctuant a Death': Entropy and Survival in The Lost Ones and Long Observation of the Ray, David Houston Jones (University of Exeter); 8. Beckett and the World, Steven Connor (Birkbeck College); 9. From Joyce to Beckett: From National to Global. Peter Boxall (University of Sussex); 10. 'Throw up for good': Gagging, Compulsion and a Comedy of Ethics in the Trilogy, Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College); Index.

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