How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science - Couverture souple

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Schuster, Aaron

 
9780262543545: How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science
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ISBN 10 : 0262543540 ISBN 13 : 9780262543545
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2024

Synopsis

A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.”

 Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Kafka’s tale of philosophical adventure is that of a lone, maladjusted dog who challenges the dogmatism of established science and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world. In How to Research Like a Dog, Aaron Schuster uses the canine as a guide dog to rediscover Kafka’s fictional universe, while taking up the cause of this ingenious, possessed, melancholy, comical, and revolutionary thinker.

Neither an exercise in literary criticism nor a traditional philosophical commentary, this charming and idiosyncratic book aligns itself with the research program of Kafka’s dog. It constructs an “impossible” system based on the fourfold division of nourishment, music, incantation, and freedom—or, stated a bit differently: enjoyment, art, institutions, and freedom. From Plato to Flaubert, Lispector, and Lacan, Schuster puts the dog in dialogue with psychoanalytic theory, the history of philosophy, and modern literature. Imagining the “Unknown University” that Kafka’s new science calls for, the book enlists new comrades in the dog’s struggle.

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À propos de l?auteur

Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer who lives in Amsterdam. His first book The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis is also a title in the Short Circuits series.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262543540
ISBN 13 
9780262543545
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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