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Author:   David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781438447803

ISBN 10:   1438447809
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   02 July 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue Part I. Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: Language as the Causality of Fate 1. Fatality: Character as Fate 2. Natural History 3. Doblin's Conception of the Modern Novel 4. The Language of Fate 5. Language as the Causality of Freedom 6. Paradise in Words: The Promise of Happiness Part II. Damals: The Melancholy Science of Memory in W. G. Sebald's Stories 1. Telling Stories: A Question of Transmissibility 2. Natural History: Becoming in Dissolution 3. Of Humans and Other Animals 4. As Time Goes By: Words from the Embers of Remembering 5. Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness: Sebald's Phenomenology of Spirit 6. Beauty: Symbol of Morality in a Phenomenology of Spirit 7. On a Journey through Disenchantment Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Redeeming Words is an elegant, highly learned, and incisive exploration of how language-and thus the greatest literature of our time-both registers the experience of the loss of utopia and affirms hope by making the loss more clear. It takes as its theme the most profound reflections on the role of words in a time of abandonment and disenchantment. Kleinberg-Levin argues not only that words communicate this sense of loss but constitute it by failing to achieve total mastery and transparency and self-consciously thematizing the corruption and also affirmative power of words. At the deepest level, this study analyzes words and what the very existence of words can confer to individuals and communities. - Peter Fritzsche, author of The Turbulent World of Franz Goll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century

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David Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Holderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger; Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics, also published by SUNY Press; and Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov.

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