Bernhard, Kafka, and the Collapse of Thinking

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bernhard, Kafka, and the Collapse of Thinking
Original language description
Observing and describing, together with tireless questioning and inquiring, are at the centre of many discussions and soliloquies of Franz Kafka's and Thomas Bernhard's characters. The characters strive to understand the world, but they never come to a satisfying conclusion: it is always possible to ask yet another question. Thinking, an endeavour to understand, is thus doomed to collapse and so are the characters. They fail, go insane, die or they never begin to live. There are motifs by means of which Kafka and Bernhard give expression to the question of thinking, as well as to differences in what they believe to be the core of the problem. By drawing on Bernhard's novels Gehen, Alte Meister and Holzfällen, and on selected works of Kafka, the author focuses on the reasons why for Kafka and Bernhard observing fails as the path to knowledge, why knowledge is deemed deceptive and why (and how) thinking has to be mastered if one is to remain sane and capable of action.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Lessons from Kafka : Philosophical Readings of Franz Kafka's Works
ISBN
978-80-7007-681-1
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
61-89
Number of pages of the book
362
Publisher name
Filosofia
Place of publication
Praha
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