Agamben's joyful Kafka : finding freedom beyond subordination /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snoek, Anke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Temas:
Agamben, Giorgio, > 1942- > Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Agamben, Giorgio, > 1942-
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924
Political science > Philosophy.
Literary studies: general.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Political science > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 1. Strategies in Response to Law (1)
  • Introduction
  • The law that is in force without significance
  • Kafka's messianic inversion
  • 2. Strategies in Response to Law (2)
  • Introduction
  • The ruse of the man from the country
  • The self-slander of Joseph K.
  • Bucephalus' study
  • 3. Strategies in Response to Bare Life
  • Introduction
  • The creation of bare life
  • The indistinguishability of law and life in The Castle
  • Kafka's destruction of paradise
  • Kafka's creaturely lives
  • 4. Strategies in Response to the `Work of Man'
  • 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
  • 5. Strategies in Response to Activism
  • Introduction
  • The compulsion of activism
  • The gestures of the Oklahoma theatre
  • Joseph K.'s shame
  • The `as not' of the parable `On Parables'
  • 6. Strategies in Response to the Sacrality of Life
  • 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
  • 7. Strategies in Response to Language
  • 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
  • 8. Strategies in Response to Time (1)
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 9. Strategies in Response to Time (2)
  • Introduction
  • The lightness of the bucket rider
  • The Messiah who comes the day after his arrival
  • Conclusion: Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination
  • Law
  • Life
  • Power
  • Language
  • Time
  • Finding freedom beyond subordination.

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