Kafkaesque : (secular) Kabbalah and allegory

A. Kiarina Kordela

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    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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFreedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages
    EditorsKiarina Kordela
    Place of PublicationU.S.
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages127-158
    Number of pages31
    ISBN (Electronic)9780230118959
    ISBN (Print)9780230113428
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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