Contents

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics and Literature

1  The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable

2  The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing

3  The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror

4  The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho

Coda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror

References

Index