Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault

Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault
Author: Nicholas Dungey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498550444

Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-Creation engages with important themes such as power, language, subjectivity and the possibility of fully developed postmodern account of the subject, resistance to power, and an aesthetic interpretation of life.

Franz Kafka and the Truths of Leadership

Franz Kafka and the Truths of Leadership
Author: Leah Tomkins
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2024-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800379242

In this innovative addition to the New Horizons in Leadership Studies series, Leah Tomkins explores Franz Kafka’s expertise in the exercise of power, emphasising his own work as a leader. Through extensive primary research and original translation, she combines literary and philosophical critique with analysis of contemporary figures to craft a manifesto for leadership relations.

Possible Worlds

Possible Worlds
Author: Rebecca Maria DeWald
Publisher: Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Argentine literature
ISBN: 9780854572748

This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Franz Kafka's short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena of "translation" and "original" and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between two texts.

Foucault

Foucault
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2006-06-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826490780

Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In Foucault, Deleuze presents one of the most incisive and productive analyses of the work of Michel Foucault. This is a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing a rigorous engagement with Foucault's views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity. Translated by Seßn Hand. >

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571133366

Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.

Franz Kafka in Context

Franz Kafka in Context
Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107085497

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

The Remnant: Franz Kafka’s Letter

The Remnant: Franz Kafka’s Letter
Author: Eli Schonfeld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2024-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111443159

As a Jew, Kafka received nothing in inheritance from his father. Nevertheless, throughout his œuvre, subtly, remnants of Jewish words can be deciphered. Hence, the question at the heart of this book: what remains when what’s left is a "nothing of Judaism" (Letter to the Father)? This question necessitates a philosophical and Jewish reading of his work, prompting a reconsideration of the intricate relationships between the Jew and the West and the Jew and modernity. Thus, this book proposes an examination of Kafka's oeuvre to uncover what remains Jewish therein – at the heart of Europe, amidst modernity – where nothing remains: the enigma of the Letter.

Kafka

Kafka
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816615155

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)intrepreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Philosophy and Kafka

Philosophy and Kafka
Author: Brendan Moran
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739180908

Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings, or examine Kafka’s writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom.