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dc.contributor.authorSchuman, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-07 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-12 03:00:32
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:11:52Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:11:52Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-15
dc.identifier1005246
dc.identifierOCN: 1135855612en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24857
dc.description.abstractIn Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer—Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa’s transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?— themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein’s writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherKafka
dc.subject.otherWittgenstein
dc.titleKafka and Wittgenstein
dc.title.alternativeThe Case for an Analytic Modernism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctv43vszx
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780810131842;9780810131507
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationEvanston, Illinois
oapen.grant.number102830
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
oapen.identifier.isbn9780810131460
grantor.number102830
oapen.identifier.ocn1135855612


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