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Philosophy and Kafka
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2013
Summary
The relationship of philosophy with Kafka’s oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka’s novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely the tendency of Kafka’s writings to elude discursive solution is itself a philosophical tendency, one that is somehow contributing to a wiser relationship of human beings with language. These matters are the focus of the proposed volume on Philosophy and Kafka.
The proposed collection brings together essays that interrogate the relationship of philosophy and Kafka, and offer new and original interpretations. The volume obviously cannot claim completeness, but it partially does justice to the multiplicity of philosophical issues and philosophical interpretations at stake.
This variety informs the composition of the volume itself. A number of essays focus on specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, from Adorno’s to Agamben’s, from Arendt’s to Benjamin’s, from Deleuze and Guattari’s to Derrida’s. A number of essays consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings: here Kafka’s name goes alongside those of Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buber, Heidegger, Blanchot, and Levinas. Finally, a number of essays consider Kafka’s writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom. In all contributions to the volume, such themes, motifs, and interpretations arise. To varying degrees, all essays are concerned with the relationship of literature and philosophy, and thus with the philosophical significance of Kafka’s writings.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8089-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8090-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
291
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 I Don’t Want to Know that I Know: The Inversion of Socratic Ignorance in the Knowledge of the Dogs No access
2 Kafka’s Empty Law: Laughter and Freedom in The Trial No access
3 A Kafkan Sublime: Dark Poetics on the Kantian Philosophy No access
4 The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein No access
5 “You’re nobody ’til somebody loves you”: Communication and the Social Destruction of Subjectivity in Kafka’s Metamorphosis No access
6 Kafka’s Insomnia No access
7 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Fabulous Metamorphosis in Kafka and Garnett No access
8 Kafka’s Political Animals No access
9 The Calamity of the Rightless: Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka on Monsters and Members No access
10 Knowing Life Before the Law: Kafka, Kelsen, Derrida No access
11 Anxiety and Attention: Benjamin and Others No access
12 On the Mimesis of Reification: Adorno’s Critical Theoretical Interpretation of Kafka No access
13 “In the Penal Colony” in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze No access
14 In a Messianic Gesture: Agamben’s Kafka No access
