Kafka and Wittgenstein The Case for an Analytic Modernism
In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka's prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what hi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press
2015.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429950806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
