Kafka Reconfigured: Law, Literature, Politics

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Kafka Reconfigured: Law, Literature, Politics

HAVLÍČEK, Tomáš; Dennis WASSOUF; Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ a Hynek VRÁNA

Základní údaje

Originální název

Kafka Reconfigured: Law, Literature, Politics

Autoři

HAVLÍČEK, Tomáš ; Dennis WASSOUF; Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ a Hynek VRÁNA

Vydání

2024

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Uspořádání workshopu

Obor

50500 5.5 Law

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Webové stránky workshopu

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Kafka; Law and Literature

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 25. 2. 2025 17:34, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

This roundtable is an encouragement to think through Kafka’s legacy in jurisprudence. Try as we might, we could hardly think of an author with a more profound impact on legal thought than Franz Kafka. What made Kafka more-than-canonical and privileged author in the eyes of legal scholars was his double situatedness in law as a social phenomenon and as a profession. Though a lawyer, Kafka maintained ironic and the same time affirmative stance towards law, accepting its authority as something structurally necessary and all the more grotesque. This highly productive tension between internal position of a practicing lawyer and a staunch critique of the juridical mechanism gave rise to a distinct aesthetic of legal power reified in the epithet of “Kafkaesque”. Working hypotheses of this roundtable is that Kafka (more often than not, rather, “kafkaesque aesthetic”) is frequently read ahistorically and merely allegorically. Our aim is to re-read Kafka as an author embedded in the age of modernity, who nonetheless sheds critical light on today’s politico-legal predicaments. This serves us as a stepping stone in reconfiguring Kafka’s place in the heterodoxy of legal movements, be it critical legal studies or law and literature. We welcome interventions into the contemporary configuration – which focuses more on the productive potential of different representations, as opposed to the system with its emphasis on design and function – of Kafka’s contribution. The reconfiguration is thus a deliberate modification in the face of new challenges that force us to read Kafka anew, more politically and historically.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1504/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Aktuální problémy teorie a dějin práva

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Aktuální problémy teorie a dějin práva

Citovat

HAVLÍČEK, Tomáš; Dennis WASSOUF; Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ a Hynek VRÁNA. Kafka Reconfigured: Law, Literature, Politics. 2024.

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HAVLÍČEK, Tomáš; Dennis WASSOUF; Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ a Hynek VRÁNA. \textit{Kafka Reconfigured: Law, Literature, Politics}. 2024.

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