Kafka and Wittgenstein : the case for an analytic modernism / Rebecca Schuman.
Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015Description: ix, 220 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780810131460 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780810131842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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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.
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