Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Volume 26, Issues 1-2The Society, 2004 |
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... imagine our unique predicament in unfamiliar terms . Rather than employ the Platonic metaphor of the cave in order to support metaphysics , he undermines the very concept of divine truth with which the Western tradition can be ...
... imagine our unique predicament in unfamiliar terms . Rather than employ the Platonic metaphor of the cave in order to support metaphysics , he undermines the very concept of divine truth with which the Western tradition can be ...
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... imagine another Abraham . Admittedly he would never make patriarch - he wouldn't even make it to old - clothes - dealer - but he is ready to fulfil the command to sacrifice on the spot - as ready as a waiter to take an order - but still ...
... imagine another Abraham . Admittedly he would never make patriarch - he wouldn't even make it to old - clothes - dealer - but he is ready to fulfil the command to sacrifice on the spot - as ready as a waiter to take an order - but still ...
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... imagine it as the narration of a Geschlecht in four different senses . Geschlecht in German can mean ' folk ' or ' clan ' as well as ' sex , ' but here I invite you to interpret Geschlecht as virtually a synonym for ' history ' or ...
... imagine it as the narration of a Geschlecht in four different senses . Geschlecht in German can mean ' folk ' or ' clan ' as well as ' sex , ' but here I invite you to interpret Geschlecht as virtually a synonym for ' history ' or ...
Contents
In Kafkas Synagogue | 11 |
Literature as Historiography Franz Kafkas Concept of | 35 |
Franz Kafkas Place in History | 43 |
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