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Kafka's Indictment of Modern Law (Hardcover)
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Kafka's Indictment of Modern Law (Hardcover)
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The legal system is often denounced as "Kafkaesque"-but what does
this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles
in his critical reading of Franz Kafka's writings about the law.
Going far beyond Kafka's most familiar works-such as The
Trial-Litowitz assembles a broad array of works that he refers to
as "Kafka's legal fiction"-consisting of published and unpublished
works that deal squarely with the law, as well as those that touch
upon it indirectly, as in political, administrative, and
quasi-judicial procedures. Cataloguing, explaining, and critiquing
this body of work, Litowitz brings to bear all those aspects of
Kafka's life that were connected to law-his legal education, his
career as a lawyer, his drawings, and his personal interactions
with the legal system. A close study of Kafka's legal writings
reveals that Kafka held a consistent position about modern legal
systems, characterized by a crippling nihilism. Modern legal
systems, in Kafka's view, consistently fail to make good on their
stated pretensions-in fact often accomplish the opposite of what
they promise. This indictment, as Litowitz demonstrates, is not
confined to the legal system of Kafka's day, but applies just as
surely to our own. A short, clear, comprehensive introduction to
Kafka's legal writings and thought, Kafka's Indictment of Modern
Law is not uncritical. Even as he clarifies Kafka's experience of
and ideas about the law, Litowitz offers an informed perspective on
the limitations of these views. His book affords rare insight into
a key aspect of Kafka's work, and into the connection between the
writing, the writer, and the legal world.
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