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Beckett's Words - The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (Hardcover)
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Beckett's Words - The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (Hardcover)
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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 happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of
humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of
universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays,
novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite
inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett
redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new
possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying
Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world,
Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly
ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in
the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that,
after all, meaning is still possible.
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