Kafka’s The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190461489
• ISBN-13: 9780190461485
• Author: Espen Hammer

Kafka’s novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor’s introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel’s philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel’s central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka’s text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.

Table contents:

1. Kafka’s Inverse Theology
2. Before the Law
3. On the Ethical Character of Literature
4. “A Disease of All Signification”: Kafka’s The Trial Between Adorno and Agamben
5. Unfettering the Future: Estrangement and Ambiguity in The Trial
6. The Trouble with Time: Kafka’s Der Proceß
7. Judges, Heathscapes, and Hazardous Quarries: Kafka and the Repetitive Image-Series
8. Kafka’s Modernism: Intelligibility and Voice in The Trial
9. Displacements on a Pathless Terrain: On Reading Kafka’s Der Proceß

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