%0 Journal Article
%T Beckett, Adorno, and the hope for nothingness as something: Meditations on theology in the age of its impossibility
%A Anna-Verena Nosthoff
%J Critical Research on Religion
%@ 2050-3040
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2050303218757320
%X 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¨Ctheological 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
%K Adorno
%K Beckett
%K inverse theology
%K critical theory
%K negative dialectics
%K esthetics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2050303218757320