Redeeming Words
Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2013
384 pages
978-1-4384-4782-7 (ISBN)
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Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-4782-7 (9781438447827)
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David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Redeeming Words
Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald
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07/2014
State University of New York Press
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David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Redeeming Words
Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald
Book
11/2013
State University of New York Press
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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.
Content
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
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
