On Beckett

Rejecting the stereotype view of Beckett as the dark existentialist of abandoned existence, Badiou rather focuses on what he calls the "hidden poem" in the prosody and themes of Beckett's work.

For Badiou, philosophy expresses itself immanently in culture through the "procedures of truth" manifested in science, art, politics and love.

These essays together furnish a meditation on the developments of Beckett's ideas, always philosophically allusive, from first works through "The Unnameable" (a solipsist impasse, claims Badiou, from which it would take Beckett ten years to escape), to a final engagement with questions of the Other and Love.