Kafka's The Trial Philosophical Perspectives
Kafka's The Trial Philosophical Perspectives
- ISBN 13:
9780190461454
- ISBN 10:
0190461454
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/20/2018
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.