1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461182103321

Autore

North Paul <1971->

Titolo

The yield : Kafka's atheological reformation / / Paul North

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8047-9669-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Meridan : crossing aesthetics

Disciplina

833/.912

Soggetti

Philosophical theology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Conversations; Preface; A Note on References; Abbreviations; Refutation of What Being Never Was; Better Weapons than Faith and Hope; Excursus: For a Kafkan Logic; The Problem of Our Art; The Yield: On Forgoing Power; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this book presents us with a Kafka few will recognize. It does so through a fine-grained analysis of the three hundred "thoughts" the writer penned near the end of World War I, when he had just been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Since they were discovered after Kafka's death, the meaning of the so-called "Zürau aphorisms" has been open to debate. Paul North's elucidation of what amounts to Kafka's only theoretical work shows them to contain solutions to problems Europe has faced throughout modernity. Kafka offers responses to phenomena of violence, discrimination, political repression, misunderstanding, ethnic hatred, fantasies of technological progress, and the subjugation of the worker, among other problems. Reflecting on secular modernity and the theological ideas that continue to determine it, he critiques the ideas of sin, suffering, the messiah, paradise, truth, the power of art, good will, and knowledge. Kafka's controversial alternative to the bad state of affairs in his day? Rather



than fight it, give in. Developing some of Kafka's arguments, The Yield describes the ways that Kafka envisions we can be good by "yielding" to our situation instead of striving for something better.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795988503321

Titolo

Settling Waterscapes in Europe : the Archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Pile-Dwellings / edited by Albert Hafner, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Andrey Mazurkevich, Elena Pranckenaite, Martin Hinz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2022

©2022

ISBN

94-6427-026-8

Edizione

[2nd (unaltered) edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Collana

Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology ; 1

Disciplina

301.2970103

Soggetti

Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings

Bronze age

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Pile dwellings have been explored over a vast region for a number of decades now. This has led to the development of different ways, methods, and even schools of under-water and peat-bog excavation practices and data analysis techniques under the influence of different research traditions in individual countries. On the one hand, these and other factors can limit our understanding of the past, whilst on the other hand they can also open up further avenues of interpretation. By collecting the papers presented at the 2016 session of the EAA in Vilnius, this book aims to take this diversity as an opportunity. The geographical scope extends from the Baltic to Russia, Belarus, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Greece, Germany, Austria and Switzerland to France. The volume thus provides a current insight into international research into life in and around a vast array of prehistoric waterscapes. Extensive multidisciplinary research carried



out in recent years has provided new data with regard to the anthropogenic influence on the landscapes around Neolithic and Bronze Age pile dwellings, which allows us to characterise in more detail the lifestyles of the settlements' inhabitants, the peculiarities of the ecological niche and the interaction between humans and their environment. The volume also contains various case studies that demonstrate the importance of scientific analyses for the study of settlements between land and water.Overall, the volume presents an important new body of data and international perspectives on the settlement of European waterscapes.