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Title Kafka and the universal / edited by Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.

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Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 21.
Note 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).
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Language In English.
Subject Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Criticism and interpretation.
Philosophy in literature -- Congresses.
Philosophy in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Cools, Arthur, 1967- editor.
Liska, Vivian, 1956- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Kafka and the universal. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016 9783110455328 (DLC) 2016041316
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