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Kafka's the Trial : philosophical perspectives /

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The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka experts together in order to explore the novel's particularly philosophical significance.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hammer, Espen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy and literature.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924. > Prozess.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Philosophy.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924
Prozess (Kafka, Franz)
Literature > Philosophy.
Law in literature.
Droit dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Law in literature
Literature > Philosophy
Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Kafka's inverse theology
  • Before the law
  • On the ethical character of literature
  • "A disease of all signification": Kafka's the trial between Adorno and Agamben
  • Unfettering the future: estrangement and ambiguity in the trial
  • The trouble with time: Kafka's der Proceß
  • Judges, heathscapes, and hazardous quarries: Kafka and the repetitive image-series
  • Kafka's modernism: intelligibility and voice in the trial
  • Displacements on a pathless terrain: on reading Kafka's der proceß
  • Index.