3. “A Peculiar Apparatus”: Kafka’s Thanatopoetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue. Ethics and Poetics: An Uneasy Affair ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. “The Odium of Doubtfulness”: Or the Vicissitudes of Arendt’s Metaphorical Thinking 16
7. 2. Why Does Hannah Arendt Lie? Or the Vicissitudes of Imagination 40
8. 3. “A Peculiar Apparatus”: Kafka’s Thanatopoetics 56
9. 4. A Strike of Rhetoric: Benjamin’s Paradox of Justice 81
10. 5. Pernicious Bastardizations: Benjamin’s Ethics of Pure Violence 101
11. 6. The Return of the Human: Germany in Autumn 122
12. 7. A Politics of Enmity: Müller’s Germania Death in Berlin 151
13. Index 181