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By Brendan Moran,Carlo Salzani,Paul Alberts,Ronald Bogue,Chris Danta,Paul Haacke,Rainer Nagele,Brian O'Connor,Andrew R. Russ,Peter Schwenger,Kevin W. Sweeney,Dimitris Vardoulakis,Isak Winkel Holm

ISBN-10: 0739180894

ISBN-13: 9780739180891

ISBN-10: 1498511260

ISBN-13: 9781498511261

The dating of philosophy with Kafka’s oeuvre is complicated. it's been argued that Kafka’s novels and tales defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has additionally been instructed that exactly the tendency of Kafka’s writings to elude discursive resolution is itself a philosophical tendency, person who is by some means contributing to a smarter dating of people with language. those issues are the point of interest of the proposed quantity on Philosophy and Kafka.

The proposed assortment brings jointly essays that interrogate the connection of philosophy and Kafka, and supply new and unique interpretations. the quantity evidently can't declare completeness, however it partly does justice to the multiplicity of philosophical matters and philosophical interpretations at stake.

This style informs the composition of the quantity itself. a couple of essays specialize in particular philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s paintings, from Adorno’s to Agamben’s, from Arendt’s to Benjamin’s, from Deleuze and Guattari’s to Derrida’s. a couple of essays reflect on the prospective relevance of convinced philosophical outlooks for interpreting Kafka’s writings: right here Kafka’s identify is going along these of Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buber, Heidegger, Blanchot, and Levinas. eventually, a few essays examine Kafka’s writings by way of a particular philosophical subject matter, reminiscent of verbal exchange and subjectivity, language and that means, wisdom and fact, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom. In all contributions to the quantity, such subject matters, motifs, and interpretations come up. To various levels, all essays are curious about the connection of literature and philosophy, and hence with the philosophical value of Kafka’s writings.

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