ISBN:
9783110458114
,
9783110457438
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 327 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Volume 21
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cools, Arthur Kafka and the Universal
DDC:
833/.912
Keywords:
Kafka, Franz Congresses Criticism and interpretation
;
Philosophy in literature Congresses
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1515/9783110458114
URL:
Volltext
(Open Access)
