Ross Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University, Germanic Languages, New York, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Piecemeal Coherence of Kafka’s Alchimistengasse Notebooks
This article investigates the problematic coherence of Franz Kafka’s Alchimistengasse notebooks, focusing on the fragment in which that coherence is both thematized and performed: “At the Building of the Great Wall of China.” By distinguishing the “system of piecemeal construction” used in the building of Kafka’s wall from the Kantian architectonics through which the wall has been interpreted by most critics, the author uncovers a concept of piec…
Nonsense, wherein there is Method”
According to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus, the form shared by language and the world cannot be said through language, but rather shows itself in language. This statement has posed a major obstacle to interpretations of the book: if the form shared by language and the world cannot be said through language, then how can Wittgenstein say (through language) anything about that form—including that it cannot be said but shows it…
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Nonsense, wherein there is Method”
According to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus, the form shared by language and the world cannot be said through language, but rather shows itself in language. This statement has posed a major obstacle to interpretations of the book: if the form shared by language and the world cannot be said through language, then how can Wittgenstein say (through language) anything about that form—including that it cannot be said but shows it…
The Piecemeal Coherence of Kafka’s Alchimistengasse Notebooks
This article investigates the problematic coherence of Franz Kafka’s Alchimistengasse notebooks, focusing on the fragment in which that coherence is both thematized and performed: “At the Building of the Great Wall of China.” By distinguishing the “system of piecemeal construction” used in the building of Kafka’s wall from the Kantian architectonics through which the wall has been interpreted by most critics, the author uncovers a concept of piec…
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Analogy (1 works) · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) (1 works) · Doctrine (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Franz Kafka Literary Studies (1 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (1 works) · History (1 works)