Freedom and Confinement in Modernity

1. Kafka’s Cages: An Introduction
A. Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis

Part I. Interpreting Kafka’s Cages

2. Special Views on Kafka’s Cages
Stanley Corngold

3. Delusions of Agency: Kafka, Imprisonment, and Modern Victimhood
Chris Fleming, John O’Carroll

4. Kafka and Derrida Before the Laws

Howard Caygill

Part II. Reconceptualizations of Kafka’s Cages

5. Kafka’s Cage
John Mowitt

6. “The Fall is the Proof of our Freedom”: Mediated Freedom in Kafka
Dimitris Vardoulakis

7. “Workforce without Possessions”: Kafka, “Social Justice,” and the Word Religion
Peter Fenves

8. Kafkaesque: (Secular) Kabbalah and Allegory
A. Kiarina Kordela

9. The Ethics and Beauty of The Trial: Kafka’s Circumscription of Failure
Ross Shields

Part III. Performatives of Kafka’s Cages

10. Kafka’s Fatal Performatives: Between “Bad Conscience” and Betrayed Vulnerability
Karyn Ball

11. How is the Trapeze Possible?
Christophe Bident

12. With Impunity
Henry Sussman

Keywords: History, Modern History, Social History, Literature, general, European Literature, History of Germany and Central Europe, Fiction