Author: Nicholas Dungey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498550444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-Creation engages with important themes such as power, language, subjectivity and the possibility of fully developed postmodern account of the subject, resistance to power, and an aesthetic interpretation of life.

Author: Leah Tomkins
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800379242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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In this innovative addition to the New Horizons in Leadership Studies series, Leah Tomkins explores Franz Kafka’s expertise in the exercise of power, emphasising his own work as a leader. Through extensive primary research and original translation, she combines literary and philosophical critique with analysis of contemporary figures to craft a manifesto for leadership relations.

Author: Rebecca Maria DeWald
Publisher: Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London
ISBN: 9780854572748
Category : Argentine literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Franz Kafka's short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena of "translation" and "original" and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between two texts.

Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826490780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In Foucault, Deleuze presents one of the most incisive and productive analyses of the work of Michel Foucault. This is a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing a rigorous engagement with Foucault's views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity. Translated by Seßn Hand. >

Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571133366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.

Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

Author: Eli Schonfeld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111443159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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As a Jew, Kafka received nothing in inheritance from his father. Nevertheless, throughout his œuvre, subtly, remnants of Jewish words can be deciphered. Hence, the question at the heart of this book: what remains when what’s left is a "nothing of Judaism" (Letter to the Father)? This question necessitates a philosophical and Jewish reading of his work, prompting a reconsideration of the intricate relationships between the Jew and the West and the Jew and modernity. Thus, this book proposes an examination of Kafka's oeuvre to uncover what remains Jewish therein – at the heart of Europe, amidst modernity – where nothing remains: the enigma of the Letter.

Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816615155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)intrepreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Author: Brendan Moran
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739180908
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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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.

Author: Arthur Cools
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110457431
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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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 engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.