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  title info:
    title: Kafka and Wittgenstein
    sub title: The Case for an Analytic Modernism
  name:
    name part: Schuman, Rebecca
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Project Muse
    role:
      role term: distributor
  type of resource: text
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (232 pages).
  abstract: In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka's prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer-Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa's transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?- themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein's writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka.
  table of contents: Introduction: why Kafka and Wittgenstein? -- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.
  note: Rebecca Schuman.
  note: Based on the author's thesis--University of California-Irvine, 2010.
  note: Open Access Unrestricted online access star
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kafka, Franz
      name part: 1883-1924
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kafka, Franz
      name part: 1883-1924
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    topic: Languages & Literatures
  subject:
    topic: Germanic Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
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    title info:
      title: Book collections on Project MUSE
  identifier: 9780810131507
  identifier: 0810131463
  identifier: 0810131501
  identifier: 9780810131460
  identifier: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42794/
  access condition: Open Access
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    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 150731
    record change date: 20240815120741.0
    record identifier: musev2_42794