Schuman, Rebecca, <br/><br/>
Kafka and Wittgenstein :  the case for an analytic modernism / 
Rebecca Schuman. 
 - ix, 220 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Based on the author's dissertation--University of California-Irvine, 2010. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780810131460 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780810131842 (pbk. : alk. paper)  RM312.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature--Philosophy.