Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of...
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Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead. Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable
Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations of Kafka's Works; Notes on Contributors; Kafka's Cages: An Introduction; Part I Interpreting Kafka's Cages; 1 Special Views on Kafka's Cages; 2 Delusions of Agency: Kafka, Imprisonment, andModern Victimhood; 3 Kafka and Derrida Before the Laws; Part II Reconceptualizations of Kafka's Cages; 4 Kafka's Cage; 5 "The Fall is the proof of our freedom": Mediated Freedom in Kafka; 6 "Workforce without Possessions": Kafka, "Social Justice," and the Word Religion; 7 Kafkaesque: (Secular) Kabbalah and Allegory
8 The Ethics and Beauty of The Trial: Kafka's Circumscription of FailurePart III Performatives of Kafka's Cages; 9 Kafka's Fatal Performatives: Between "Bad Conscience" and Betrayed Vulnerability; 10 How is the Trapeze Possible?; 11 With Impunity; Index
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