Agamben's Joyful Kafka

Anke Snoek

earliest edition we have, 2012 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014

Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben?s references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben?s claims that?it is a very poor reading of Kafka?s works that sees in them only a summation of the anguish of a guilty ma...

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Agamben's Joyful Kafka edition · 2014 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781628921328
Agamben's Joyful Kafka edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 160 pages · 9781441104892
Agamben's Joyful Kafka edition · 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781283848596
Agamben's Joyful Kafka edition · 2012 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 9781441110121
Agamben's Joyful Kafka edition · 2012 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 160 pages · 9781441172495

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