RT Article
T1 Beckett, Adorno, and the hope for nothingness as something: Meditations on theology in the age of its impossibility
JF Critical research on religion
VO 6
IS 1
SP 35
OP 53
A1 Nosthoff, Anna-Verena
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1662771355
AB This article discusses the theological implications of Adorno's writings on Beckett by specifically examining their constellative motifs of death, reconciliation, and redemption. It addresses not only their content but also their form, suggesting a mutually stimulating relationship between the two as based both on a negative-dialectical approach and an inverse-theological trajectory. Focusing on Adorno's discussion of Beckett's oeuvre as a "metaphysical entity," the author argues that Adorno's reading of Beckett is peculiar because it is inextricably tied to his own critical-theological venture. The article claims that Adorno's reflections on Beckett contain, at their most basic level, meditations on theology in the age of its impossibility.
K1 Adorno
K1 Beckett
K1 Critical Theory
K1 Esthetics
K1 inverse theology
K1 Negative Dialectics
DO 10.1177/2050303218757320