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Title Kafka and the universal / edited by Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016

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Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21.
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
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
Analysis Singularity
modernism
narrative
universalism
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)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
SUBJECT Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 fast
Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 gnd
Subject Philosophy in literature -- Congresses
Jewish studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Philosophy in literature
Singularität Philosophie
Universalität
Rezeption
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Cools, Arthur, 1967- editor.
Liska, Vivian, 1956- editor.
LC no. 2016046236
ISBN 9783110458114
311045811X
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