Beckett's Words
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-1683-8 (ISBN)
David Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA. His books include Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin’s Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005); Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov (2012); and Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald (2013).
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Prologue: Nothing . . . But Words: Words and Tears
PART ONE No Theodicy: A Chance of Happiness?
1 Negative Dialectics
2 In the Secret of Guilt: Punishment as Meaning
3 Political Theology: Old Dictations, Old Knots
4 Ending the Endings: The Endgame of Theodicy
PART TWO The Utopian Idea: Remembering the Future in the Past
1 Paradise: Nowhere—But Here!
2 Tales for Children: Retrieving the Enchantment
3 Hope and Despair in a Time of Mourning
4 Waiting: In the Meantime
5 In the Event of a New Word
PART THREE After Hegel, Beckett’s How It Is: Approaching Justice with Infinite Slowness
1 Swamp: Justice in the State of Nature
2 The Struggle for Acknowledgement and Recognition
3 Cruelty and Kindness: Humanity in Question
4 The Human Voice: Of Promises and Solaces
5 Redeeming Words
6 Where in the World is Justice?
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Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.7.2015 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 563 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-1683-8 / 1474216838 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-1683-8 / 9781474216838 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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