Anke Snoek

Agamben's Joyful Kafka (eBook, ePUB)

Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben's references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben's claims that 'it is a very poor reading of Kafka's works that sees in them only a summation of the anguish of a guilty man before the inscrutable power'. Virtually all of Kafka's stories leave us puzzled about what really happened. Was Josef K., who is butchered like a dog, defeated? And what about the meaningless but in his own way complete creature Odradek? Agamben's work sheds new light on these questions and arrives, through Kafka, at different strategies for freedom at the point where this freedom is most blatantly violated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441172495
• Artikelnr.: 38302811

Autorenporträt

Anke Snoek is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia. She has published articles and book chapters on autonomy, freedom, Agamben, Kafka, Foucault and addiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Kafka's Hope
1. Strategies in Response to Law (1)
2. Strategies in Response to Law (2)
3. Strategies in Response to Bare Life
4. Strategies in Response to the 'Work of Man'
5. Strategies in Response to Activism
6. Strategies in Response to the Sacrality of Life
7. Strategies in Response to Language
8. Strategies in Response to Time (1)
9. Strategies in Response to Time (2)
Conclusion: Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination
Literature
Index