Kafka and the Universal
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...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] :
De Gruyter
2016
2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;
Volume 21. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424522106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Kafka and the Universal: Introduction / Cools, Arthur / Liska, Vivian
- 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 / Corngold, Stanley
- Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka / Moran, Brendan
- The Logic of the "Swamp World": Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom / Rosendal, Søren
- The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka's "Singularity" / Villani, Arnaud
- Section 2: Before the Law
- Am-ha'aretz: The Law of the Singular. Kafka's Hidden Knowledge / Schonfeld, Eli
- Desire and Responsibility: The Case of K. / Cools, Arthur
- Derrida-Reads-Kafka / Ben-Naftali, Michal
- Section 3: Animals
- Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's "The Village Schoolmaster" / Gasché, Rodolphe
- Irreducible Pluralities: The Jewish Legacy of Franz Kafka / Suchoff, David
- Kafka's Cat-Lamb: Hybridization of Genesis and Taxonomy / Glazova, Anna
- Section 4: Modernism
- Kafka's Anti-Epiphanies / Rabaté, Jean-Michel
- Modernism's Particulars, Oscillating Universals, and Josefine's Singular Singing / Markotic, Lorraine
- The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa / Shahar, Galili
- Section 5: After Kafka
- Reading Kafka: A Personal Story / Sandbank, Shimon
- Kafka, Pro and Contra: Günther Anders's Holocaust Book / Gellen, Kata
- Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt / Erdle, Birgit R.
- Notes on Contributors
- Name Index
