Kafka’s Nonsymbolic Semantics

Idealistic Studies 5 (3):231-254 (1975)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Few twentieth century novelists have been subjected to as exhaustive and self-confident interpretations of the ultimate meaning of their work as was Franz Kafka. Veritable regiments of men of letters, psychoanalysts, sociologists, philosophers, and just plain busybodies followed the urge to formulate theories on Kafka’s concern with the alienation of Western man. Personal friends like Max Brod, dramatizers of the loveless world of The Trial, André Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault, analyzers of parental stunting of the child psyche like Josef Rattner, observers of Kafka’s Austro-Bohemian world like Pavel Eisner and Peter Demetz, investigators of traditional themes in Kafka’s fiction—notably of their Hebraic and Chasidic ingredients—like André Nemeth and Hartmut Binder, hunters of allegorical and parabolic semantics like Norbert Fuerst and Clements Heselhaus, all seem to share one common trait in their vastly differing approaches: a singular disrespect for the frequent hints made by the author himself as to his ultimate objectives.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Improvisation, Consciousness, and the Play of Creation: Music as a Lens into Ultimate Reality and Meaning.Edward W. Sarath - 2007 - In B. K. Dalai (ed.), Ultimate Reality and Meaning. Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Pune. pp. 30--1.
Ultimate reality and meaning in Maimonides concept of God and creation.Z. Levy - 1991 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 14 (3):165-174.
Knowledge of the World.Galen Strawson - 2002 - Noûs 36 (s1):146 - 175.
Eliot, ts struggle towards a still point.Dj Leigh - 1993 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 16 (3-4):209-227.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-01-09

Downloads
17 (#742,076)

6 months
5 (#246,492)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references