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Kafka's indictment of modern law /

"The legal system is often denounced as "Kafkaesque"--But what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka's writings about the law. Going far beyond Kafka's most familiar works--such as The Trial--Litowitz a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Litowitz, Douglas E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: An Outline of the Project -- Part I. Exegesis: 1. Kafka's Life in the Law -- 2. Isolating the Relevant Texts -- 3. Narrative Summaries -- 4. Kafka's Target- Modern Law -- Part II. Interpretation -- 5. Modern Law Has Come Unmoored from Its Normative Grounding -- 6. Modern Law is Inherently Dystopian -- 7. Modern Law Inverts Punishment So That It Predates the Crime -- 8. Modern Law Fails to Accept the Ambiguity of Texts -- 9. Modern law Is Comic and Carnivalesque -- Conclusion: Was Kafka Correct about Modern Law? 
520 |a "The legal system is often denounced as "Kafkaesque"--But what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka's writings about the law. Going far beyond Kafka's most familiar works--such as The Trial--Litowitz assembles a broad array of works that he refers to as "Kafka's legal fiction"--consisting of published and unpublished works that deal squarely with the law, as well as those that touch upon it indirectly, as in political, administrative, and quasi-judicial procedures. Cataloguing, explaining, and critiquing this body of work, Litowitz brings to bear all those aspects of Kafka's life that were connected to law--his legal education, his career as a lawyer, his drawings, and his personal interactions with the legal system. A close study of Kafka's legal writings reveals that Kafka held a consistent position about modern legal systems, characterized by a crippling nihilism. Modern legal systems, in Kafka's view, consistently fail to make good on their stated pretensions--in fact often accomplish the opposite of what they promise. This indictment, as Litowitz demonstrates, is not confined to the legal system of Kafka's day, but applies just as surely to our own. A short, clear, comprehensive introduction to Kafka's legal writings and thought, Kafka's Indictment of Modern Law is not uncritical. Even as he clarifies Kafka's experience of and ideas about the law, Litowitz offers an informed perspective on the limitations of these views. His book affords rare insight into a key aspect of Kafka's work, and into the connection between the writing, the writer, and the legal world."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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