Abstract
In his introduction to Franz Kafka’s The Trial, George Steiner argues that it “embodies the particular techniques of … rabbinic hermeneutics,” which make it “truly accessible only to those schooled in the labyrinth … of the rabbinic legacy.”2 This legacy, Steiner continues, “persists in parodistic or bastard guise in such current Judaic derivatives as Freudian psychoanalysis or Derridean deconstruction,” which, like Kafka, are “heir to this methodology and epistemology … of ‘unending analysis’ (Freud’s phrase).”
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages |
Editors | Kiarina Kordela |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 127-158 |
Number of pages | 31 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780230118959 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780230113428 |
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Publication status | Published - 2011 |