Beckett's words: the promise of happiness in a time of mourning
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical...
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| Zusammenfassung: | At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian ""promise of h |
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Autor: Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael
Jahr: 2015
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
Prologue: Nothing . .. But Words: Words and Tears l
PART ONE No Theodicy: A Chance of Happiness? 85
1 Negative Dialectics 87
2 In the Secret of Guilt: Punishment as Meaning 97
3 Political Theology: Old Dictations, Old Knots 107
4 Ending the Endings: The Endgame of Theodicy 119
PARTTWO The ütopian Idea: Remembering the
Future in the Past 127
1 Paradise: Nowhere—But Here! 129
2 Tales for Children: Retrieving the Enchantment 139
3 Hope and Despair in a Time of Mourning 145
4 Waiting: In the Meantime 155
5 In the Event of a New Word 159
PART THREE After Hegel, Beckett s How It Is:
Approaching Justice with Infinite Slowness 173
1 Swamp: Justice in the State of Nature 175
2 The Struggle for Acknowledgement and
Recognition 185
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CONTENTS
3 Cruelty and Kindness: Humanity in Question 207
4 The Human Voice: Of Promises and Solaces 217
5 Redeeming Words 221
6 Where in the World is Justice? 229
Notes 257
Bibliography 299
Permissions 308
Index 310
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