Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Citations and abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beckettâ€?s Molloy and the ethics of literature
  • 1.1 Meaninglessness and ethics
  • 1.2 Molloy and ethical literary theory
  • 1.3 The sublime in Molloy
  • 2. Kantâ€?s theory of aesthetic reflective judgement
  • 2.1 The faculties involved in judgement
  • 2.2 Judgements of taste
  • feelings claiming intersubjective validity
  • 2.3 Universal validity of judgements of taste
  • 3. The judgement of the sublime in nature
  • 3.1 The feeling of the sublime in nature
  • 3.2 The aspect change of the judgement of the sublime3.3 The mathematically sublime and moral ideas
  • 3.4 The sublime, affects and respect
  • 3.5 Universal validity of judgements of the sublime
  • 4. The moral import of the sublime
  • 4.1 The real sublime
  • 4.2 Culture and moral ideas
  • 4.3 Cultivation and conversion
  • 4.4 Maxims and disposition
  • 4.5 Character, conversion and development
  • 4.6 The moral import of the beautiful and of the sublime
  • 5. The sublime in art and literature
  • 5.1 Art and purposiveness
  • 5.2 Genius and aesthetic ideas
  • 5.3 The sublime in art6. Molloy and the Kantian sublime
  • 6.1 Forms of sublimity in Molloy
  • 6.2 Aesthetic judgements and other judgements of literature
  • 6.3 Molloy, the sublime, and ethics
  • Bibliography
  • Index