Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / / Rebecca Schuman.
In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka's prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what hi...
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Schuman, Rebecca, author. Kafka and Wittgenstein The Case for an Analytic Modernism / Rebecca Schuman. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015. ©2015. 1 online resource text txt computer c online resource cr English Based on the author's dissertation--University of California-Irvine, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: why Kafka and Wittgenstein? -- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress. Description based on print version record. In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka's prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer-Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa's transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?- themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein's writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka. CC BY-NC-ND Unrestricted online access star Literature Philosophy. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books. 0-8101-3146-3 |
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