Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780810131507
Content:
Introduction: why Kafka and Wittgenstein? -- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dissertation University of California-Irvine 2010
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780810131842
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780810131460
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
;
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951 Tractatus logico-philosophicus
;
Sprachphilosophie
;
Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
;
Wittgenstein, Ludwig zu
;
Hochschulschrift
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Author information:
Schuman, Rebecca
