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Philosophy and Kafka

Philosophy and Kafka

by Brendan Moran (Editor), Brendan Moran (Editor), Carlo Salzani (Editor), Carlo Salzani (Editor), Paul Alberts (Contributor)

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Synopsis

Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka's work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka's writings, or examine Kafka's writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 300
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 15 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 1498511260
ISBN 13: 9781498511261

Media Reviews
Several readings are illuminating. ... Philosophy and Kafka contains many valuable insights. ... The illuminating moments of Philosophy and Kafka will reward curious fans of Kafka's work. * Jewish Review of Books *
These illuminating essays explore some of the ways in which the ideas of philosophers such as Socrates, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, and Kant are at play in Kafka's writing, and the ways in which more recent philosophers such as Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin have considered Kafka's work. What is more, many of the essays collected here shed light on the ways in which Kafka's own thinking can contribute to on-going philosophical debates about issues such as the conditions for identity, the nature of animality, the requirements of justice, and the moral implications and promise of certain forms of writing. Philosophy and Kafka is an important and long overdue contribution to Kafka scholarship as well as to philosophical reflection on a range of pressing issues. -- Marc Lucht
This essay collection - the first of its kind - explores a rich variety of ways in which Kafka's writings are bound to philosophical concerns. It bridges the gap between the philosophical and the literary, highlighting how the two coexist and illuminate one another. From Socrates to Agamben, from Kierkegaard to Wittgenstein, ethics and aesthetics, logic and literature, Kafka's prose resonates, reflects and provokes. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines, Philosophy and Kafka establishes fascinating new paths of enquiry into Kafka's thinking and philosophers' engagement with it. It allows us to understand why we continue to be captured by Kafka's writing, standing as a testament to its relevance, and attesting to the vitality of the research it inspires. -- Uta Degner, University of Salzburg
Author Bio
Brendan Moran is currently research scholar at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, and Adjunct associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he has taught in the Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Humanities, and the Faculty of Arts. Under the anagrammatic pseudonym, Monad Rrenban, he has published Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy, a book on Walter Benjamin's early writings. He has also published essays on Benjamin, Agamben, and Salomo Friedlaender, and is completing a book on Benjamin's Kafkan politics. Carlo Salzani holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Verona (Italy) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Monash University (Australia). He has published Crisi e possibilita: Robert Musil e il tramonto dell'Occidente (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), Constellations of Readings: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009) and co-edited Essays on Boredom and Modernity (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009). He has translated into Italian some of Slavoj Zizek's books.