Redeeming Words - Language Promise of Happiness in Stories of Doblin Sebald

Informationen zum Autor David Michael Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald and Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics , both published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald-writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments-have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.

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David Michael Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald and Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics, both published by SUNY Press.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin, Kleinberg-Levin David Michael
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781438447810
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4781-0
• Pagine: 384
• Serie: Suny Series, Intersections: Ph; SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica tedesca; letteratura in lingua tedesca; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, german, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism