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The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation

Current price: $130.00
The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation
The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation

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The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation

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Since they were discovered after Kafka's death, the meaning of the so-called "Zürau aphorisms" has been open to debate. Paul North's elucidation of what amounts to Kafka's only theoretical work shows them to contain solutions to problems Europe has faced throughout modernity. Kafka offers responses to phenomena of violence, discrimination, political repression, misunderstanding, ethnic hatred, fantasies of technological progress, and the subjugation of the worker, among other problems. Reflecting on secular modernity and the theological ideas that continue to determine it, he critiques the ideas of sin, suffering, the messiah, paradise, truth, the power of art, good will, and knowledge. Kafka's controversial alternative to the bad state of affairs in his day? Rather than fight it, give in. Developing some of Kafka's arguments, describes the ways that Kafka envisions we can be good by "yielding" to our situation instead of striving for something better.

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