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Power and animality in Kafka's The Castle

机译:卡夫卡《城堡》中的力量与动物气息

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Animality is a leitmotif in Kafka's works. It has been studied from various points of view, but rarely in the context of power. Further, The Castle has been largely ignored in studies on animality in his oeuvre. This paper suggests that the novel, though animals as such are basically absent from it, is permeated with animality and that its focus on power interacts with animality in various ways. In particular, by the metaphor of animality, the three well-known dimensions of power can be illuminated; animals/humans used as pets reveal how the very human attitude of caring may be a fertile ground for a totalizing type of power; and finally, animality turns out to be deeply connected with divinity in terms of absolute or perfect power, knowledge and eternal happiness. Kafka's last and unfinished novel can be read as a study about the theology of power, with the conclusion that to exist as a human being means to be doomed to will, to acquire knowledge by power, that, however, cannot bring us eternal bliss, only the animal perfection of the Hell that admires itself but is fundamentally unhappy.
机译:动物性是卡夫卡作品中的主题。已经从各种角度对它进行了研究,但是很少在权力的背景下进行研究。此外,在关于动物的研究中,城堡在很大程度上被忽略了。本文认为,尽管基本上没有动物,但该小说充满了动物性,并且其对权力的关注与动物性有多种相互作用。尤其是,通过动物性的比喻,可以阐明三个众所周知的权力维度。用作宠物的动物/人类揭示了人类这种关怀的态度如何成为总权力类型的沃土;最后,在绝对或完美的力量,知识和永恒的幸福方面,动物性与神性有着深深的联系。卡夫卡的最后一部未完成的小说可以看作是对权力神学的研究,得出的结论是,作为人而存在意味着注定要意志,靠权力获得知识,然而,这不能给我们带来永恒的幸福,只有对地狱的动物完美,会钦佩自己,但从根本上讲是不高兴的。

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    《Journal of political power》 |2015年第3期|85-107|共23页
  • 作者

    Zoltan Balazs;

  • 作者单位

    Institute of Political Science, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary,Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary;

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  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 关键词

    Kafka; animality; power; caring; knowledge; happiness;

    机译:卡夫卡;动物性功率;关怀知识;幸福;
  • 入库时间 2022-08-18 00:42:14

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