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OverviewProbing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Michael Kleinberg-LevinPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.662kg ISBN: 9781438447810ISBN 10: 1438447817 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 November 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsRedeeming 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 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 Author InformationDavid 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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