TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schuman,Rebecca
TI  - Kafka and Wittgenstein: the case for an analytic modernism 
SN  - 9780810131460 (cloth : alk. paper)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Evanston, Illinois
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Kafka, Franz,
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Based on the author's dissertation--University of California-Irvine, 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -