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97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)

Books of Some Substance

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Kafka's Nothingness

There's clearly a linguistic play and you can see it in Heidegger. The kind of swings back and forth in the syntax I was tracing very closely along the lines of the German. A lot of the drama of Kafka sentences or Kafka's writing takes place in this in the structure. And looking at maybe the sort of flip side of that coin of humor when looking at something worth complaining he just flipped to one of the passages that is him contemplating suicide so it's much darker, but it has some incredible poetry and philosophical ideas here.

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