LEADER 03493nam 2200613 450 001 9910461182103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-9669-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804796699 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470685 035 $a(EBL)4414746 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545382 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16134807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545382 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14792225 035 $a(PQKB)10746354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4414746 035 $a(DE-B1597)563896 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804796699 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4414746 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11176335 035 $a(OCoLC)920465926 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930108 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470685 100 $a20150224h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe yield $eKafka's atheological reformation /$fPaul North 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 1 $aMeridan : crossing aesthetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9659-9 311 $a0-8047-9445-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 351-364) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThe Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this book presents us with a Kafka few will recognize. It does so through a fine-grained analysis of the three hundred "thoughts" the writer penned near the end of World War I, when he had just been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Since they were discovered after Kafka's death, the meaning of the so-called "Zürau aphorisms" has been open to debate. Paul North's elucidation of what amounts to Kafka's only theoretical work shows them to contain solutions to problems Europe has faced throughout modernity. Kafka offers responses to phenomena of violence, discrimination, political repression, misunderstanding, ethnic hatred, fantasies of technological progress, and the subjugation of the worker, among other problems. Reflecting on secular modernity and the theological ideas that continue to determine it, he critiques the ideas of sin, suffering, the messiah, paradise, truth, the power of art, good will, and knowledge. Kafka's controversial alternative to the bad state of affairs in his day? Rather than fight it, give in. Developing some of Kafka's arguments, The Yield describes the ways that Kafka envisions we can be good by "yielding" to our situation instead of striving for something better. 410 0$aMeridian (Stanford, Calif.) 606 $aPhilosophical theology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophical theology. 676 $a833/.912 700 $aNorth$b Paul$f1971-$01053518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461182103321 996 $aThe yield$92485451 997 $aUNINA