Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages (Studies in European Culture and History)

Cover......Page 1
Titlepage......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Abbreviations of Kafka’s Works......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Kafka’s Cages: An Introduction......Page 14
Part I Interpreting Kafka’s Cages......Page 20
1 Special Views on Kafka’s Cages......Page 22
2 Delusions of Agency: Kafka, Imprisonment, andModern Victimhood......Page 42
3 Kafka and Derrida Before the Laws......Page 62
Part II Reconceptualizations of Kafka’s Cages......Page 74
4 Kafka’s Cage......Page 76
5 “The Fall is the proof of our freedom”: Mediated Freedom in Kafka......Page 100
6 “Workforce without Possessions”: Kafka, “Social Justice,” and the Word Religion......Page 120
7 Kafkaesque: (Secular) Kabbalah and Allegory......Page 140
8 The Ethics and Beauty of The Trial: Kafka’s Circumscription of Failure......Page 172
Part III Performatives of Kafka’s Cages......Page 190
9 Kafka’s Fatal Performatives: Between “Bad Conscience” and Betrayed Vulnerability......Page 192
10 How is the Trapeze Possible?......Page 214
11 With Impunity......Page 226
Index......Page 252