Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 327 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110458114
,
9783110457438
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Volume 21
Content:
Kafka has been widely praised for his rendering of a universal human condition. Yet his work is also considered to have given voice to the singularity of experience. This paradox in the reception of Kafka engenders questions concerning the interplay between philosophy and literature, especially pertaining to the meaning of the universal and its transformation, which the contributions of this volume address from a variety of perspectives. Arthur Coolsand Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Content:
Table of Contents -- Kafka and the Universal: Introduction -- Section 1: The Ambiguity of the Singular -- The Singular Accident in a Universe of Risk: An Approach to Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal -- Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka -- The Logic of the "Swamp World": Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom -- The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal:Kafka's "Singularity" -- Section 2: Before the Law -- Am-ha'aretz: The Law of the Singular. Kafka's Hidden Knowledge
Content:
Desire and Responsibility: The Case of K -- Derrida-Reads-Kafka -- Section 3: Animals -- Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's "The Village Schoolmaster" -- Irreducible Pluralities: The Jewish Legacy of Franz Kafka -- Kafka's Cat-Lamb: Hybridization of Genesis and Taxonomy -- Section 4: Modernism -- Kafka's Anti-Epiphanies -- Modernism's Particulars, Oscillating Universals, and Josefine's Singular Singing -- The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa -- Section 5: After Kafka -- Reading Kafka: A Personal Story
Content:
Kafka, Pro and Contra: Günther Anders's Holocaust Book -- Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110455328
Additional Edition:
Print version Cools, Arthur Kafka and the Universal Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter,c2016 ISBN 9783110455328
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110458114
Author information:
Liska, Vivian 1956-
