Dr. Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Gibson was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2003-2005) to write Beckett and Badiou. He is trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, permanent Advisory Editor to the James Joyce Quarterly and Founder/Organizer of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses. He is a member of the International Association of University Professors in English, of the editorial board of Critical Zone and of the Advisory Board of the London Network for Modern Textual Studies.

The book is impeccably researched.....Badiou's reading of the author has hitherto been less influential in the Anglo-Saxon (empirical) context than it has in le monde francophone. Gibson's book constitutes the first sustained study of the subject. In its depth of analysis, it will be difficult to surpass.

• Introduction ; 1. Badiou (i): Being, Event, Subject, Truth ; 2. Badiou (ii): Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics ; 3. Badiou, Beckett, and Contemporary Criticism ; 4. The Break with Doxa: Murphy, Watt ; 5. The Event of the Event: The Unnamable ; 6. The Thought of the Good: Enough, The Lost Ones, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho ; 7. The Sparkle Hid in Ashes: Beckett's Plays ; Conclusion: The Pathos of Intermittency

Dr. Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Gibson was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2003-2005) to write Beckett and Badiou. He is trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, permanent Advisory Editor to the James Joyce Quarterly and Founder/Organizer of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses. He is a member of the International Association of University Professors in English, of the editorial board of Critical Zone and of the Advisory Board of the London Network for Modern Textual Studies.

The book is impeccably researched.....Badiou's reading of the author has hitherto been less influential in the Anglo-Saxon (empirical) context than it has in le monde francophone. Gibson's book constitutes the first sustained study of the subject. In its depth of analysis, it will be difficult to surpass.

• Introduction ; 1. Badiou (i): Being, Event, Subject, Truth ; 2. Badiou (ii): Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics ; 3. Badiou, Beckett, and Contemporary Criticism ; 4. The Break with Doxa: Murphy, Watt ; 5. The Event of the Event: The Unnamable ; 6. The Thought of the Good: Enough, The Lost Ones, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho ; 7. The Sparkle Hid in Ashes: Beckett's Plays ; Conclusion: The Pathos of Intermittency