Philosophy And Kafka
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Philosophy And Kafka
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Author : Brendan Moran
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-04-19
Philosophy And Kafka written by Brendan Moran and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings, or examine 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.
Politics Of Benjamin S Kafka Philosophy As Renegade
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Author : Brendan Moran
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Politics Of Benjamin S Kafka Philosophy As Renegade written by Brendan Moran and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin’s writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin’s related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin’s writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from – its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about – established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin’s writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin’s writings on Kafka to Benjamin’s writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin’s messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature.
Kafka S The Trial
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Author : Espen Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-23
Kafka S The Trial written by Espen Hammer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-23 with Philosophy categories.
Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.
Franz Kafka And The Genealogy Of Modern European Philosophy
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Author : Neil Allan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Franz Kafka And The Genealogy Of Modern European Philosophy written by Neil Allan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy in literature categories.
Allan, who teaches philosophy in Stratford-upon-Avon, seeks a coalition of philosophy and literature in the work of Kafka (1883-1924), beginning with a grounding of his output in the philosophical context from which it emerged. He explores how the German writer's texts were influenced by the descriptive psychology of Franz Brentano and its attendant agendas of logic, Gestalt psychology, and a nascent form of phenomenology. He also identifies Kafka's aesthetic exploitation of such positions, and surveys the post-structuralist response to his work. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Kafka And The Universal
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Author : Arthur Cools
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-07-25
Kafka And The Universal written by Arthur Cools and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.
The Intellectual Contexts Of Kafka S Fictions
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Author : Arnold Heidsieck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Intellectual Contexts Of Kafka S Fictions written by Arnold Heidsieck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with German fiction categories.
Kafka's modernist innovations in fiction were strongly influenced by non-literary sources which he encountered during his formative years as a writer: cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and language, jurisprudence and theology. This title takes a different route, drawing on over 50 published and unpublished sources: letters from teachers and friends, discussing their intellectual interests; book reviews and articles on philosophy and law by the same teachers; a course transcript; criminal and procedural law texts; and transactions on historical and contemporary Judaism and Christianity.
Kafka
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Author : Howard Caygill
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-12-14
Kafka written by Howard Caygill and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-14 with Philosophy categories.
By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka. Kafka: In the Light of the Accident advances a unique philosophical interpretation via the pivotal theme of the accident, understood both philosophically and in a broader cultural context, that includes the philosophical and sociological basis of accident insurance and the understanding of the concepts of chance and necessity. Caygill reveals how Kafka's reception was governed by a series of accidents - from the order of Max Brod's posthumous publication of the novels and the correction of 'misprints', to many other posthumous editorial strategies. The focus on the accident casts light on the role of media in Kafka's work, particularly visual media and above all photography. By stressing the role of contingency in his authorship, Caygill also fundamentally questions the 20th century view of Kafka's work as 'kafkaesque'. Instead of a narration of domination, Kafka: In the Light of the Accident argues that Kafka's work is best read as a narration of defiance, one which affirms (often comically) the role of error and contingency in historical struggle. Kafka's defiance is situated within early 20th century radical culture, with particular emphasis lent to the roles of radical Judaism, the European socialist and feminist movements, and the subaltern histories of the United States and China.
Freedom From The Free Will
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Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-08-30
Freedom From The Free Will written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Philosophy categories.
Brings Kafkas fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory. Many of Kafkas narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes futile attempts to express their will. In this way, Kafka emerges as a critic of the free will and as a proponent of a different kind of freedom: one focused within the confines of ones experience and mediated by ones circumstances. Vardoulakis contends that his sense of humor is the key to understanding Kafka as a political thinker. Laughter, in this account, is the tool used to deconstruct power. By placing Kafka in dialogue with philosophy and political theory, Vardoulakis shows that Kafka can give us invaluable insights into how to be freeand how to laugh. Vardoulakiss original new book contributes to the fields of Kafka studies, political theory, and contemporary European philosophy by forcefully realigning our understanding of the problem of freedom and the free will as it traverses Kafkas literary texts. Its greatest strength lies in its careful and rigorous exposition of the refractory concepts of freedom that circulate through Kafkas most canonical works. Gerhard Richter, author of Inheriting Walter Benjamin Freedom from the Free Will is at the forefront of a vibrant new development in Kafka studies that, without succumbing to old debates about Kafkas supposed religiosity, rigorously works out the philosophical undercurrents and theoretical consequences of his literary practices. The laughing, playful Kafka encountered in Vardoulakiss book creates concepts of freedom that cannot be found elsewhere. Peter Fenves, author of The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time
Dostoevsky Kierkegaard Nietzsche Kafka
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Author : William Hubben
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-05-13
Dostoevsky Kierkegaard Nietzsche Kafka written by William Hubben and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
How four of Europe’s most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind. Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, philosophy, or belles lettres. Instead, they saw themselves both as the end products of a dying civilization and as prophets of the coming chaos of the twentieth century. In this brilliant combination of biography and lucid exposition, their apocalyptic visions of the future are woven together into a provocative portrait of modernity. “This small book has a depth of insight and a comprehensiveness of treatment beyond what its modesty of size and tone indicates. William Hubben…sees the spiritual destiny of Europe as one of transcending these masters. But to be transcended, their message must first be absorbed, and that is why the study of them is so important to us now.” —William Barrett, The New York Times
Kafka And Wittgenstein
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Author : Rebecca Schuman
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-15
Kafka And Wittgenstein written by Rebecca Schuman and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the im-portant questions we attempt to answer—Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa’s transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?— themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein’s writings, Schuman can-nily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka.