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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cools, Arthur, 1967- editor.

Liska, Vivian, 1956- editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 21.

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Kafka, Franz.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Philosophy in literature--Congresses.

Philosophy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 327 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Summary:

"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, especially pertaining to the meaning of the universal and its transformation, which the contributions of this volume address from a variety of perspectives."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Proceedings of two international conferences (one on "Kafka and His Readers", held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012, the other on "Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal", organized at the University of Antwerp in 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kafka and the universal

ISBN:

9783110455328

3110455323

OCLC:

930041308