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The Yield - Kafka's Atheological Reformation (Hardcover)
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The Yield - Kafka's Atheological Reformation (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre
of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the
debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is
one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this book
presents us with a Kafka few will recognize. It does so through a
fine-grained analysis of the three hundred "thoughts" the writer
penned near the end of World War I, when he had just been diagnosed
with tuberculosis. Since they were discovered after Kafka's death,
the meaning of the so-called "Zurau aphorisms" has been open to
debate. Paul North's elucidation of what amounts to Kafka's only
theoretical work shows them to contain solutions to problems Europe
has faced throughout modernity. Kafka offers responses to phenomena
of violence, discrimination, political repression,
misunderstanding, ethnic hatred, fantasies of technological
progress, and the subjugation of the worker, among other problems.
Reflecting on secular modernity and the theological ideas that
continue to determine it, he critiques the ideas of sin, suffering,
the messiah, paradise, truth, the power of art, good will, and
knowledge. Kafka's controversial alternative to the bad state of
affairs in his day? Rather than fight it, give in. Developing some
of Kafka's arguments, The Yield describes the ways that Kafka
envisions we can be good by "yielding" to our situation instead of
striving for something better.
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