...Oliver Simons Paul North’s The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation is one of the few books to have analyzed Kafka’s so-called Zürau Aphorisms , a collection of short texts from 1917–1918. North reads these notations as “reflections” in the tradition of ontological philosophy, “thoughts...

...Brendan Moran In his writings on Franz Kafka, Benjamin develops a conception of study. The conception of study pertains to an exercise that Benjamin observes in some characters from Kafka’s novels and stories. Benjamin also suggests that this exercise of study is enacted by Kafka’s works themselves...

.... East Central Europe, for him, is the ever-shifting terrain of struggle over and for Europeanness and, at the same time, a place where ruins are still uncertain and thus full of creative potentiality. Andrukhovych’s own influences, which include Franz Kafka, magical realism, and the Polish O’Harists...

...-century style literary realism, it proposes to consider Lu Xun as a modernist writer and uses a comparative perspective to underscore his commonalities with European modernism. Comparing “The True story of Ah Q” with Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan and Kafka's “Building the Great Wall of China...

..., including his writings on radio, film, children’s literature, and children’s theater, as well as his studies of Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht. The introduction provides brief summaries of the ten articles comprising the dossier and their relation to one another, and it addresses the question...

... of the therapeutic not just possible but inevitable. The second death of the subtitle is that of the spiritual abjection, what Kafka calls spiri- tual mutilation, which always precedes the downward movement of acting out into debauchery and soul-death. Interventions  /  O’Hara...

... Press . Deleuze Gilles . 1988 . Foucault . Translated by Hand Seán . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix . 1986 . Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature . Translated by Polan Dana . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...

... at the University of Calgary. His most recent book is Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade. He has also published (under the “pseudonym” Monad Rrenban) Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy in Early Works of Walter Benjamin. His publications include articles on Benjamin, Agamben, Laruelle...

... . Sebald W. G. 1971 . “ Alles Schöne macht das Mißlungene ärger: Am Fall Günter Eich; Poesie in den Steingärten, Erinnerung als eine Form des Vergessens .” Frankfurter Rundschau , February 6 , 1971 . Sebald W. G. 1972 . Review of Johann Bauer and Isidor Pollak, Kafka und Prag...

... tradition in this way means to always assume the possibility of its utmost crisis. Although Benjamin would say, with Kafka, ‘‘The gate to justice is study he would also point out that ‘‘his students are pupils who have lost the Holy Writ’’ (SW, 2:815). The highest actuality of tradition is, 11...

... like Franz Kafka in his doom-laden but undaunted Zürau apho- risms (which were likewise written during the period of the First World War), Benjamin thinks of the fall as an ongoing event, not necessarily conspicu- ous, in human history, or rather as an ineluctable condition of human life as we know...

... Kafka Outside of a dog, a man’s best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it’s very dark. —Groucho Marx My mother groan’d! my father wept...

.... Such a view links “The Life of Students” to another later writ- ing, “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” (1934). There Martel / Subversion of Myth and Authority 177 Benjamin writes, “The gate to justice is study. Yet Kafka doesn’t dare attach to this study...

... in impugning a translation. Ben Kafka’s entry on “Media/Medium (of Communication)” juxtaposes two different versions of a passage from Freud where “words [Worte]” are called a “Vermittler” (vari- ously translated as “mediator,” “intermediary,” and “broker Kafka rejects Jean Laplanche’s French rendering...

..., an unorthodox use for theology, and a new funda- mental element uniting nature and history. His latest project, “Anarchy of the Archaic: Resemblance in the World,” treats the latter. Two previous books are The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (2015) and The Problem of Distraction (2012). Terry...

.... Mitchell, W. J. T. Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Nealon, Jeffrey T. Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life. Stanford, CA: Stan- ford University Press, 2016. North, Paul. The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation...

.... Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, and Yeo Wei Wei, 2002), and Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (coauthored with Lillian S. Robinson, 1998). He has published articles on Kafka, Beckett, Edward Sapir, and knowledge production within the university. Robert B. Brandom...

... concepts in literature and thought around 1900, appeared in 2007. Other publications include Literaturtheorien zur Einführung (2009), The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (coedited with Jens Meierhenrich [2017 and Kafkas Institutionen (coedited with Arne Höcker [2007 Yi Zheng is associate professor...

... composites, like the hat that Charles Bovary is fated to wear into his new classroom at the outset of the novel named after his spouse who is so imprudent in her collusion with her drives, or like Franz Kafka’s Odradek.2...

.... Significance is a function of mortality—because it is death that marks the passage from corruptibility to meaningfulness The Benjaminian theme of the ruin is read by Lukács as a ‘‘link between allegory and the annihilation of history 15 In this context, Franz Kafka becomes a key figure, for his allegories...