How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science
Aaron Schuster
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A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today--the canine thinker from Kafka's story "Investigations of a Dog." Written toward the end of Kafka's life, "Investigations of a Dog" (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author's oeuvre. Kafka's tale of philosophical adventure is that of a lone, maladjusted dog who challenges the dogmatism of established science and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world. In How to Research Like a Dog, Aaron Schuster uses the canine as a guide dog to rediscover Kafka's fictional universe, while taking up the cause of this ingenious, possessed, melancholy, comical, and revolutionary thinker. Neither an exercise in literary criticism nor a traditional philosophical commentary, this charming and idiosyncratic book aligns itself with the research program of Kafka's dog. It constructs an "impossible" system based on the fourfold division of nourishment, music, incantation, and freedom--or, stated a bit differently: enjoyment, art, institutions, and freedom. From Plato to Flaubert, Lispector, and Lacan, Schuster puts the dog in dialogue with psychoanalytic theory, the history of philosophy, and modern literature. Imagining the "Unknown University" that Kafka's new science calls for, the book enlists new comrades in the dog's struggle.
Product Details
Price
$35.00
$32.55
Publisher
MIT Press
Publish Date
December 10, 2024
Pages
352
Dimensions
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Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780262543545
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Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer who lives in Amsterdam. His first book The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis is also a title in the Short Circuits series.