Kafka and the Universal /

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

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Kafka's work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox...

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Superior document:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, Volume 21
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Cools, Arthur
TeilnehmendeR:
Cools, Arthur,
Liska, Vivian,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Kafka and the Universal: Introduction / Cools, Arthur / Liska, Vivian
  • Section 1: The Ambiguity of the Singular
  • The Singular Accident in a Universe of Risk: An Approach to Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal / Corngold, Stanley
  • Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka / Moran, Brendan
  • The Logic of the "Swamp World": Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom / Rosendal, Søren
  • The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka's "Singularity" / Villani, Arnaud
  • Section 2: Before the Law
  • Am-ha'aretz: The Law of the Singular. Kafka's Hidden Knowledge / Schonfeld, Eli
  • Desire and Responsibility: The Case of K. / Cools, Arthur
  • Derrida-Reads-Kafka / Ben-Naftali, Michal
  • Section 3: Animals
  • Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's "The Village Schoolmaster" / Gasché, Rodolphe
  • Irreducible Pluralities: The Jewish Legacy of Franz Kafka / Suchoff, David
  • Kafka's Cat-Lamb: Hybridization of Genesis and Taxonomy / Glazova, Anna
  • Section 4: Modernism
  • Kafka's Anti-Epiphanies / Rabaté, Jean-Michel
  • Modernism's Particulars, Oscillating Universals, and Josefine's Singular Singing / Markotic, Lorraine
  • The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa / Shahar, Galili
  • Section 5: After Kafka
  • Reading Kafka: A Personal Story / Sandbank, Shimon
  • Kafka, Pro and Contra: Günther Anders's Holocaust Book / Gellen, Kata
  • Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt / Erdle, Birgit R.
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Name Index

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