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 words power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamins political theology; his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play; and Adornos critical aesthetic theory; but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers; especially Hegels phenomenology of spirit; Nietzsches analysis of nihilism; and Derridas 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 Becketts 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 Becketts 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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