Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Illustrations x
6. Abbreviations xi
7. Introduction Embodied Agency: Towards an Ecology of the Subject 1
8. 1. From Cartesian Ruins: Rocking Chair Phenomenology 21
9. 2. Short-Circuited Rationalism, or How the Body Means 51
10. 3. From Dialectics to Infinity: Life Cycles in Molloy, Malone Dies and Endgame 85
11. 4. Radical Indecision: Aporia and Embodied Agency in The Unnamable 114
12. 5. Style and the Violence of Passivity: How It Is 134
13. 6. Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Quad and Agency 161
14. 7. The Body and Creation: Worstward Ho 176
15. Conclusion: Embedded in the World: Beckett, Late Modernism, Earth-Body Art 201
16. Bibliography 216
17. Index 235