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Before the Voice of Reason

Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Before the Voice of Reason

Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

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State University of New York Press

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0791477827

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Beckett's Words

The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474216889

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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

This book offers a philosophical reflection on the nature of language by reading some exemplary works of literature. Drawing on the thought of philosophers--especially Plato, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, the author argues that language is the bearer of a utopian or messianic promise of happiness, and that by redeeming the revelatory power of words, the two writers in this study are contributing to the redemption of the promise of happiness in a world of reconciled antagonisms and contradictions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739177516

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9780739177518

Gestures of Ethical Life

Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Gestures of Ethical Life

Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely immeasurable? In critical dialogue with texts by Plato, Hölderlin, Rilke, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Levi, the author argues that the question of measure has become ever more urgent in the context of a modernity pressured by the conditions of a technological economy and a relativism that threatens to destroy a vital sense of moral responsibility and the commitment to justice that underlies the possibility of freedom. Conceived as a task for the “metaphysics” of memory, this book explores the normative problematic of measure, bringing its deeply buried redemptive promise to appearance in our gestures, uses and abuses of the hands, the dialectic of tact, and the manners of social existence.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750882

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9780804750882

Redeeming Words

Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.

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State University of New York Press

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1438447825

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9781438447827

The Opening of Vision

Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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The Opening of Vision

Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415001730

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9780415001731

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

An Introduction

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

An Introduction

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

This important new book offers an introduction to Heidegger’s phenomenology of perception, interpreting and explaining five key words, ‘Sein’, ‘Dasein’, ‘Ereignis’, ‘Lichtung’, and ‘Geschick’. David Kleinberg-Levin argues that, besides preparing the ground for a major critique of metaphysics and the Western world, Heidegger’s phenomenology of perception lays the groundwork for understanding perception—in particular, seeing and hearing, as capacities the historical character of which is capable of overcoming and significantly ameliorating the most menacing, most devastating features of the Western world that Heidegger subjected to critique. He proposes that the development of these capacities is not only a question of learning certain skills, but also a question of learning new character and that Heidegger’s critique of the Western world suggests ways in which we might learn and develop new, more sensitive, poetic and mindful ways of relating to the perceived world.

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1786612135

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Critical Studies on Heidegger

The Emerging Body of Understanding

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Critical Studies on Heidegger

The Emerging Body of Understanding

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

In these boldly original studies, Heidegger's thought is carried critically and constructively beyond its original limitations, re-presenting his project in terms of an emerging body of understanding, making sense of this project not only in its historical, cultural significance but also in its bearing on the emergence of future possibilities. Continuing Heidegger's commitment to a way of thinking that is formed from reflectively lived experience, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin suggests what can be learned regarding the character of our typical and habitual ways of looking and seeing, hearing and listening, and touching, holding, handling, and gesturing. The body of ontological understanding consequently emerges as we learn how to take responsibility for the meaning of being in forming and developing the character of our relationship to all the beings in our world. In this original reading of Heidegger's thought, Kleinberg-Levin suggests what his project could mean for an ethical way of life.

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1438491832

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Redeeming Words

Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language. In this probing look at Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.

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SUNY Press

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1438447817

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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

This second volume of David Kleinberg-Levin's study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception sheds light on how Heidegger works, both critically and constructively, with seeing and hearing. The author explores how these capacities address the ills illuminated by Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the nihilism devastating the Western world.

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1786612143

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Beckett's Words

The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

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1474216862

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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov

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Redeeming Words

Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald

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Before the Voice of Reason

Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics

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Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

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Gestures of Ethical Life

Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger

By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

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Gestures of Ethical Life

Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger

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Before the Voice of Reason

Before the Voice of Reason

Beckett's Words

Beckett's Words

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

Gestures of Ethical Life

Gestures of Ethical Life

Redeeming Words

Redeeming Words

The Opening of Vision

The Opening of Vision

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Critical Studies on Heidegger

Critical Studies on Heidegger

Redeeming Words

Redeeming Words

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception

Beckett's Words

Beckett's Words

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

Redeeming Words

Redeeming Words

Before the Voice of Reason

Before the Voice of Reason

Gestures of Ethical Life

Gestures of Ethical Life

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