Acknowledgements -- Citations and abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Beckett'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. Kant'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 sublime -- 3.3 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 art -- 6. 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.