Agamben's joyful Kafka: finding freedom beyond subordination
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1. Verfasser: Snoek, Anke (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Pub. 2014
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Quote; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Kafka's legacy; Agamben's legacy; Agamben's reading of Kafka; Agamben's unorthodoxy; Kafka's hope: A way out; Agamben's hope: Profane messianism and potentiality; Agamben's goal: Fulfilment of the metaphysical tradition; Kafka defended against his interpreters; How to read this book; Introduction: Kafka's Hope; Introduction; The law that is in force without significance; Kafka's messianic inversion; 1 Strategies in Response to Law (1); Introduction; The ruse of the man from the country
The self-slander of Joseph K.Bucephalus' study; 2 Strategies in Response to Law (2); Introduction; The creation of bare life; The indistinguishability of law and life in The Castle; Kafka's destruction of paradise; Kafka's creaturely lives; 3 Strategies in Response to Bare Life; Introduction; Determining the 'work of man'; Kafka's 'work cage'; Odradek's being without purpose; The being without work of the assistants and messengers; The irreparability of the assistants; Sancho Panza's saving of Dulcinea; 4 Strategies in Response to the 'Work of Man'; Introduction; The compulsion of activism
The gestures of the Oklahoma theatreJoseph K.'s shame; The 'as not' of the parable 'On Parables'; 5 Strategies in Response to Activism; Introduction; The sacrality of life; Kafka's limbo; The steps of the land surveyor; Kafka's new Kabbalah: Redemption for God, the count and the judges; 6 Strategies in Response to the Sacrality of Life; Introduction; Language as presupposition and exclusion; The return of the person in suspended animation; The impatience of literature; Kafka's becoming language and magical names; The justness of the officer in the penal colony
7 Strategies in Response to LanguageIntroduction; Time as chronological compulsion; Kafka's art: Perfect nihilism as the ground of our existence; A free life in the shadow of the Great Wall of China; The mighty paw of transmissibility; Odradek's Nachleben; The closed fist in the city coat of arms; 8 Strategies in Response to Time (1); Introduction; The lightness of the bucket rider; The Messiah who comes the day after his arrival; 9 Strategies in Response to Time (2); Law; Life; Power; Language; Time; Finding freedom beyond subordination; Conclusion: Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index
Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben?s references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben?s claims that ?it is a very poor reading of Kafka?s works that sees in them only a summation of the anguish of a guilty man before the inscrutable power?. Virtually all of Kafka?s stories leave us puzzled about what really happened. Was Josef K., who is butchered like a dog, defeated? And what about
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