@Book{866217037,
editor="Cools, Arthur
and Liska, Vivian",
title="Kafka and the universal",
series="De Gruyter eBook-Paket Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Area Studies",
year="2016",
publisher="De Gruyter",
address="Berlin",
keywords="Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; Kafka, Franz 1883-1924; Philosophy in literature; Franz Kafka; Moderne; Narrativit{\"a}t; Universalit{\"a}t; Conference papers and proceedings; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Singularity; modernism; narrative; universalism",
contents="Frontmatter -- -- Table of Contents -- -- Kafka and the Universal: Introduction -- -- 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 -- -- Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka -- -- The Logic of the ``Swamp World'': Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom -- -- The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka's ``Singularity'' -- -- Section 2: Before the Law -- -- Am-ha'aretz: The Law of the Singular. Kafka's Hidden Knowledge -- -- Desire and Responsibility: The Case of K. -- -- Derrida-Reads-Kafka -- -- Section 3: Animals -- -- Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's ``The Village Schoolmaster'' -- -- Irreducible Pluralities: The Jewish Legacy of Franz Kafka -- -- Kafka's Cat-Lamb: Hybridization of Genesis and Taxonomy -- -- Section 4: Modernism -- -- Kafka's Anti-Epiphanies -- -- Modernism's Particulars, Oscillating Universals, and Josefine's Singular Singing -- -- The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa -- -- Section 5: After Kafka -- -- Reading Kafka: A Personal Story -- -- Kafka, Pro and Contra: G{\"u}nther Anders's Holocaust Book -- -- Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt -- -- Notes on Contributors -- -- Name Index",
abstract="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.",
note="edited by Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska",
note="Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.",
isbn="9783110458114",
doi="10.1515/9783110458114",
url="https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110458114",
url="https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110458114",
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url="https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110458114/original",
url="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110458114",
language="English"
}