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Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit - Softcover

 
9783854496625: Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit

Synopsis

With the question of finiteness in Kafka's texts, Dominik Zechner's study addresses a secret main scene of its literature. Finity is understood here not as a subject among others, but as the inherent problem of Kafka's writing, insofar as it concerns the production and mode of action of meaning and its readability. Because as much as Kafka's texts revolve around inescapability, mysteriousness and finiteness of existence, so much their language resists a finite reading - it always remains in need of reading and opens up permanently new interpretation possibilities and ways of talking further. In 15 consecutive sections, the gemanist and philosopher Zechner works out how Kafka's language is established in the balance between "death and the scratched curve before it", constantly creating new threshold spaces and intermediate zones. For reading the texts, however, this means that the alternatives negotiated therein structurally refuse to make a decision in favor of a single pole and their often attested depth is to be sought precisely in it. Zechner illustrates this through meticulous reading (such as the texts The Judgment, the process, the castle and a. ), which demonstrate how abbreviating and misleadingly unambiguous interpretations must remain - thus not infrequently revising prominent readings. In a playful way, Zechner not only succeeds in demonstrating the functioning of Kafka's texts, but also to illuminate the philosophical problem fields negotiated in it. With desire to formulate and wit, this essay becomes an amazingly carefree view of the connection of language and finitude, death and meaning: "Linguistically, death is always already a representation of itself - and therefore not death, but the survival of its representation."

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