Kafka and Wittgenstein : the case for an analytic modernism - Schuman, Rebecca (Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015)
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.
Based on the author's dissertation--University of California-Irvine, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951.; Literature -- Philosophy