Publication

2011 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,000 words, Guess

Page Count

244 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780230113428
  • Open LibraryOL25001540M

Classifications

  • DDC833/.912
  • LCCPT2621.A26 Z719926 2011
  • LCCD203.2-475HN8-HN19PN

Description

Franz Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in European culture and history

Other Editions

  • Freedom and confinement in modernity: Kafka's cagesPalgrave Macmillan2011-01-01

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