Kleinberg-Levin Redeeming Words

Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4782-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue

Part I. Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz: Language as the Causality of Fate

1. Fatality: Character as Fate

2. Natural History

3. Döblin’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

Über Autor(innen)

David Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin'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.