The Way of Oblivion : Heraclitus and Kafka (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
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Book Description
If Heraclitus is one of our most ancient writers, Kafka seems especially modern. They share in a struggle between disclosure and obscurity that is perhaps as old as writing itself. In this lucid and engaging volume, David Schur takes us from philosophy to literature and back in a sustained examination of a fundamental philosophical metaphor: the way or path of method. Through close readings of texts by Heraclitus, Plato, Heidegger, Blanchot, and Kafka, he follows the development of a rhetorical commonplace into a distinctly Heraclitean paradox of method, concluding that Kafka's account of the way beyond mortal existence renews Heraclitus's emphasis on oblivion in the search for truth.
About the Author
David Schur is Lecturer on Literature, Harvard University.
The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature),David Schur,Harvard Department of Comparative Literature,0674948033,1883-1924,Ancient and Classical,Eastern European,Heraclitus,,History,History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical,Kafka, Franz,,Literary Criticism,Literature: Classics,Methodology,Paradox,Philosophy,of Ephesus
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