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Kafka and the universal / edited by Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska.

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"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, especiall...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Cools, Arthur, 1967- (Editor), Liska, Vivian, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924
Philosophy in literature > Congresses.
Philosophy in literature
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska: Kafka and the universal: introduction
  • Section 1: The ambiguity of the singular. Stanley Corngold: The singular accident in a universe of risk: an approach to Kafka and the paradox of the universal
  • Brendan Moran: Philosophy and ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka
  • Søren Rosendal: The logic of the "Swamp world": Hegel with Kafka on the contradiction of freedom
  • Arnaud Villani: The necessary revision of the concept of the universal: Kafka's "Singularity"
  • Section 2: Before the law. Eli Schonfeld: Am-ha'aretz: the law of the singular. Kafka's hidden knowledge
  • Arthur Cools: Desire and responsibility: the Case of K. 130
  • Michal Ben-Naftali: Derrida-reads-Kafka
  • Section 3: Animals. Rodolphe Gasché: Of mammoth smallness: Franz Kafka's "The village schoolmaster"
  • David Suchoff: Irreducible pluralities: the Jewish legacy of Franz Kafka
  • Anna Glazova: Kafka's cat-lamb: hybridization of genesis and taxonomy
  • Section 4: Modernism. Jean-Michel Rabaté: Kafka's anti-epiphanies
  • Lorraine Markotic: Modernism's particulars, oscillating universals, and Josefine's singular singing
  • Galili Shahar: The alarm clock: the times of Gregor Samsa
  • Section 5: After Kafka. Shimon Sandbank: Reading Kafka: a personal story
  • Kata Gellen: Kafka, pro and contra: Günther Anders's Holocaust book
  • Birgit R. Erdle: Dis/placing thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt.

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