Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739177516
• ISBN13: 9780739177518
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher