The Look Back: Lot’s Wife, Kafka, Blanchot

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. »any reality, however small.« Prague Zionisms between the Nations 7
5. »The Entrance to the More Important.« Kafka’s Personal Zionism 23
6. »Der letzte Zipfel.« Kafka’s State of Mind and the Making of the Jewish State 59
7. Anti–Ödipus im Land der Ur–Väter: Franz Kafka und Anton Kuh 69
8. Nachbarn, Feinde und andere Gemeinschaften 89
9. Jewish Education: Borderline and Counterdiscourses in Kafka 107
10. Kafka’s Gnostic Existentialism and Modern Jewish Revival 147
11. Metamorphosis as Messianic Myth. Dream and Reality in the Writings of Franz Kafka 157
12. Kafka, the »Ostjuden«, and the Inscription of Identity 189
13. Uncovering the Father: Kafka, Judaism, and Homoeroticism 207
14. »Ende oder Anfang?« Kafka und der Judenstaat 219
15. Kafka and Agnon: Their Relationship to Judaism and Zionism 239
16. A Sign of Sickness and a Symbol of Health: Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks 259
17. The Image of Kafka in Max Βrod’s Zauberreich der Liebe and its Zionist Implications 271
18. The Creative Dialogue between Brod and Kafka 283
19. The Look Back: Lot’s Wife, Kafka, Blanchot 297
20. Virtual Zion: The Promised Lands of the Kafka Critical Editions 307
21. List of Contributors 321
22. Index 323