On Beckett, on!

Jean-Michel Rabaté, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, coeditor of the Journal of Modern Literature, cofounder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté is the author or editor of more than forty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary theory. Recent monographs include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), Rire au Soleil (2019), Beckett and Sade (2020), Rires Prodigues: Rire et jouissance chez Marx, Freud et Kafka (2021), James Joyce, Hérétique et Prodigue (2022), and Lacan l'irritant (2023).

• Introduction, by Jean-Michel RabatéNothing is Impossible: Bergson, Beckett, and the Pursuit of the Naught, by Jeremy ColangeloBeckettian Habit and Deictic Exhaustion, by Shuta KibaGlitches in Logic in Beckett's Watt: Toward a Sensory Poetics, by Amanda M. DennisBeckett's Vessels and the Animation of Containers, by Hunter DukesBlanchot in Infinite Conversation(s) with Beckett, by Arleen IonescuBeckett, Painting and the Question of "the human", by Kevin BrazilArt of Impoverishment: Beckett and arte povera, by Erika MihálycsaBeckett, War Memory, and the State of Exception, by Emilie MorinPutting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity, by Ruben BorgDogging the Subject: Samuel Beckett, Emmanuel Levinas, and Posthumanistic Ethics, by Karalyn Kendall-MorwickA Defense of Wretchedness: Molloy and Humiliation, by Rick De VilliersWho Hobbles after the Subject: Parables of Writing in The Third Policeman and Molloy, by Yael Levin" 'Tis my muse will have it so": Four Dimensions of Scatology in Molloy, by Andrew G. Christensen"Strange laughter": Post-Gothic Questions of Laughter and the Human in Samuel Beckett's Work, by Hannah SimpsonThe Illusionless: Adorno and the Afterlife of Laughter in How It Is, by Michelle Rada