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Kafka's The Trial - Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
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Kafka's The Trial - Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
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Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in
1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of
European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books
of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused
of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is
never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically
as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God.
It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of
modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent
period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero
searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the
anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and
greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an
editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual
historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore
the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors
pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance,
ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human
uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or
the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of
everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the
essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact
philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims.
Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text,
the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary
form and technique.
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