Proceedings of two international conferences (one on "Kafka and His Readers", held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012, the other on "Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal", organized at the University of Antwerp in 2013).

"Kafka has been widely praised for his rendering of a universal human condition. Yet his work is also considered to have given voice to the singularity of experience. This paradox in the reception of Kafka engenders questions concerning the interplay between philosophy and literature, especially pertaining to the meaning of the universal and its transformation, which the contributions of this volume address from a variety of perspectives."-- Provided by publisher.

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Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska: Kafka and the universal: introduction -- Section 1: The ambiguity of the singular. Stanley Corngold: The singular accident in a universe of risk: an approach to Kafka and the paradox of the universal -- Brendan Moran: Philosophy and ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka -- S�ren Rosendal: The logic of the "Swamp world": Hegel with Kafka on the contradiction of freedom -- Arnaud Villani: The necessary revision of the concept of the universal: Kafka's "Singularity" -- Section 2: Before the law. Eli Schonfeld: Am-ha'aretz: the law of the singular. Kafka's hidden knowledge -- Arthur Cools: Desire and responsibility: the Case of K. 130 -- Michal Ben-Naftali: Derrida-reads-Kafka -- Section 3: Animals. Rodolphe Gasch�e: Of mammoth smallness: Franz Kafka's "The village schoolmaster" -- David Suchoff: Irreducible pluralities: the Jewish legacy of Franz Kafka -- Anna Glazova: Kafka's cat-lamb: hybridization of genesis and taxonomy -- Section 4: Modernism. Jean-Michel Rabat�e: Kafka's anti-epiphanies -- Lorraine Markotic: Modernism's particulars, oscillating universals, and Josefine's singular singing -- Galili Shahar: The alarm clock: the times of Gregor Samsa -- Section 5: After Kafka. Shimon Sandbank: Reading Kafka: a personal story -- Kata Gellen: Kafka, pro and contra: G�unther Anders's Holocaust book -- Birgit R. Erdle: Dis/placing thought: Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt.

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