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Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation : Between Tyranny and Despair /

Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpreta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geddes, Jennifer L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The tyranny of simplicity and the fantasy of completion : Kafka's "Letter to his father" and Freud's Interpretation of dreams
  • The power of interpretation and the interpretation of power : Kafka's "The judgment" and Bourdieu's Social theory
  • The virtue of hesitation and the temptation of resolution : Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Todorov's Fantastic
  • The ethics of attention and the meaning of pain : Kafka's "In the penal colony" and Levinas's "Useless suffering."