TY  - GEN
AU  - Schuman,Rebecca
TI  - Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism
SN  - j.ctv43vszx
PY  - 2015///1115
CY  - Evanston, Illinois
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Literature
KW  - Kafka
KW  - Wittgenstein
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24857/1/1005246.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24857/1/1005246.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24857/1/1005246.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34240
ER  -