Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 327 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110458114
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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.
Note:
Frontmatter -- -- 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 -- -- 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 -- -- Kafka, Pro and Contra: Günther Anders’s Holocaust Book -- -- Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt -- -- Notes on Contributors -- -- Name Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110455328
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kafka and the universal Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 3110455323
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110455328
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kafka and the universal Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 3110455323
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110455328
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110458114
URL:
Volltext
(Open Access)
Author information:
Liska, Vivian 1956-
Author information:
Cools, Arthur 1967-
