Orienting Nietzsche's "Nearest Things" in Kafka's Letters to Felice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275673 |
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| Authors | Jill Marsden (0000-0003-1669-3182, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 19-34 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2017.a668739 |
| OpenAlex | W2752392669 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Franz Kafka's five-year correspondence with Felice Bauer is marked by an unusual fascination with the practice of writing and receiving letters and with the minutiae of the everyday. I suggest that Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of the "nearest things" illuminates Kafka's letter-writing as an embodied style or "orientation" of thought
Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Fingerprint (computing) · Literature · Minutiae · Style (visual arts) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Franz Kafka Literary Studies · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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