Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency Book

Abbreviations     xi
Introduction     1
Beginnings     1
Actual Infinity     6
Intermittency     16
Old Extinguisher     25
Badiou (i): Being, Event, Subject, Truth     41
Being     41
Event     53
Subject     58
Truth     67
Badiou (ii): Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics     76
State and Doxa     76
Politics     81
Ethics     90
Aesthetics and the 'Waiting Subject'     101
Badiou, Beckett, and Contemporary Criticism     117
Some Critical Positions     117
Ethics (ii): Beckett     129
Differences and Repetitions     133
Evenementialite     138
The Break with Doxa: Murphy, Watt     143
Murphy and the Big World     143
Incidents of Note     155
The Logic of Melancholy     162
The Event of the Event: The Unnamable     172
Logics of Appearance     172
Objects and Inexistents     179
The Siren and the Rock     182
The Irrepressible Ephemeral     186
The Thought of the Good:Enough, The Lost Ones, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho 198
Plato and Lacan     198
Love, Enough     205
The Use in Going Up: The Lost Ones     211
Absence Supreme Good and Yet: Ill Seen Ill Said     217
A Grace without Concept: Worstward Ho     220
The Sparkle Hid in Ashes: Beckett's Plays     229
The Precious Margaret     229
Remains Onstage     233
Nuancing the Event     241
Conclusion: The Pathos of Intermittency     254
The Ends of Jouissance     254
Modernity and the Event     257
Actual Eclipse     268
Another Field of Thought     273
Beckett's Threshold     279
Bibliography     291
Index     313