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Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 212 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 417 g, Total Illustrations: 0
  • Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2016
  • Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 1438462395
  • ISBN-13: 9781438462394
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 212 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 417 g, Total Illustrations: 0
  • Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2016
  • Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 1438462395
  • ISBN-13: 9781438462394
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Brings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.

Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes' futile attempts to express their will. In this way, Kafka emerges as a critic of the free will and as a proponent of a different kind of freedom: one focused within the confines of one's experience and mediated by one's circumstances. Vardoulakis contends that his sense of humor is the key to understanding Kafka as a political thinker. Laughter, in this account, is the tool used to deconstruct power. By placing Kafka in dialogue with philosophy and political theory, Vardoulakis shows that Kafka can give us invaluable insights into how to be free-and how to laugh.

Recenzijas

"...very highly recommended." Midwest Book Review

"Vardoulakis's original new book contributes to the fields of Kafka studies, political theory, and contemporary European philosophy by forcefully realigning our understanding of the problem of freedom and the free will as it traverses Kafka's literary texts. Its greatest strength lies in its careful and rigorous exposition of the refractory concepts of freedom that circulate through Kafka's most canonical works." Gerhard Richter, author of Inheriting Walter Benjamin

"Freedom from the Free Will is at the forefront of a vibrant new development in Kafka studies that, without succumbing to old debates about Kafka's supposed 'religiosity,' rigorously works out the philosophical undercurrents and theoretical consequences of his literary practices. The laughing, playful Kafka encountered in Vardoulakis's book creates concepts of freedom that cannot be found elsewhere." Peter Fenves, author of The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

Papildus informācija

Brings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Referencing Kafka's Works xi
Preamble: Kafka's Laughter xiii
1 Kafka's Cages: Laughter and the Free Will
1(26)
Plots of Confinement and the Kafkaesque Laughter
1(2)
The Separation of Freedom and Unfreedom: Augustine's Invention of the Free Will
3(4)
Freedom From: Negative and Positive Freedom
7(8)
Laughter and Freedom: On Kafka's Political Technique
15(3)
The Cage and Its Relations: Laughter, Freedom, Ontology
18(9)
2 The Abrahamic Laughter: The Topography of Freedom in "The Judgment" and The Metamorphosis
27(30)
Abrahamic Laughter: Between the Theological and the Political
27(4)
Who Is Gustav Blenkelt? The Two Interpretations
31(6)
The Transformation of the Ideal in "The Judgment": The Primacy of the Theologico-Political
37(8)
"The world of freedom" and Its Essential Fault: Blanchot's Kafka
45(4)
The Essential Transformation: Laughter in The Metamorphosis
49(8)
3 The Return of the Body: The Ethics of Laughter
57(24)
Ethical Freedom: Levinas's Critique of the Free Will
57(4)
Ethical Laughter: The Nature Theater of Oklahoma
61(5)
Regaining the Power to Say "One": "A Report to an Academy"
66(5)
The Other's Laughter: "A Hunger Artist"
71(4)
"The fall is the proof of our freedom"
75(6)
4 The Law of Freedom: Reading The Trial through Spinoza
81(34)
A Cage without Walls: Kafka and Biopolitics
81(7)
Spinoza's Ethical Laughter: The Empty Law of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
88(5)
Empty Law without Truth: The Priests Discourse and Existential Torment
93(6)
The Laughter of Truth: Josef K.'s Hesitation
99(7)
Agamben's Antinomianism: The Biopolitical Return of Theology
106(9)
5 Executing Violence: The Drama of Power in "In the Penal Colony"
115(30)
Two Executions: The Spectacle of Power
115(3)
The Death Penalty and Sovereignty
118(3)
The Tragedy of Modern Sovereignty and the Existential Drama of Biopolitics
121(2)
The Economy of Substitution: Death and the Free Will
123(8)
Generalized Violence as Ontology: Mirbeau's The Torture Garden
131(3)
The Theater of Laughter: Secondary Characters Center Stage!
134(4)
Toward an Ontology of Laughter: An Agonistic Economy of Freedom
138(7)
Postscript: A Triple or a Single Will? 145(4)
Notes 149(28)
Bibliography 177(10)
Index 187
Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has written and edited several books, including (with Andrew Benjamin) Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press.