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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?