Agamben's Joyful Kafka : finding freedom beyond subordination / Anke Snoek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snoek, Anke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-.

Agamben, Giorgio.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Kafka, Franz.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Liberty.

Philosophy, Italian.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Place of Publication:

[London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben's references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben's claims that 'it is a very poor reading of Kafka's works that sees in them only a summation of the anguish of a guilty man before the inscrutable power'. Virtually all of Kafka's stories leave us puzzled about what really happened. Was Josef K., who is butchered like a dog, defeated? And what about the meaningless but in his own way complete creature Odradek? Agamben's work sheds new light on these questions and arrives, through Kafka, at different strategies for freedom at the point where this freedom is most blatantly violated."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Kafka's Hope

1. Strategies in Response to Law (1)

2. Strategies in Response to Law (2)

3. Strategies in Response to Bare Life

4. Strategies in Response to the 'Work of Man'

5. Strategies in Response to Activism

6. Strategies in Response to the Sacrality of Life

7. Strategies in Response to Language

8. Strategies in Response to Time (1)

9. Strategies in Response to Time (2)

Conclusion: Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination Literature

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781628926736

1628926732

9781441172495

1441172491

9781283848596

1283848597

9781441110121

1441110127

OCLC:

817899226