The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka’s “Singularity”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Kafka and the Universal: Introduction 1
4. Section 1: The Ambiguity of the Singular
5. The Singular Accident in a Universe of Risk: An Approach to Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal 13
6. Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin’s Kafka 43
7. The Logic of the “Swamp World”: Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom 66
8. The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka’s “Singularity” 90
9. Section 2: Before the Law
10. Am-ha’aretz: The Law of the Singular. Kafka’s Hidden Knowledge 107
11. Desire and Responsibility: The Case of K. 130
12. Derrida-Reads-Kafka 145
13. Section 3: Animals
14. Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka’s “The Village Schoolmaster” 157
15. Irreducible Pluralities: The Jewish Legacy of Franz Kafka 178
16. Kafka’s Cat-Lamb: Hybridization of Genesis and Taxonomy 196
17. Section 4: Modernism
18. Kafka’s Anti-Epiphanies 215
19. Modernism’s Particulars, Oscillating Universals, and Josefine’s Singular Singing 238
20. The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa 257
21. Section 5: After Kafka
22. Reading Kafka: A Personal Story 273
23. Kafka, Pro and Contra: Günther Anders’s Holocaust Book 283
24. Dis/Placing Thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt 307
25. Notes on Contributors 321
26. Name Index 325