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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Philosophy of Art II. - YMFPR229
Title: Philosophie der Kunst II.
Guaranteed by: Programme Deutsche und französische Philosophie (24-DFP)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: 20
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: German
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Dr. phil. habil. Hans Rainer Sepp, M.A., mimořádný profesor Univerzity Karlovy
Teacher(s): Dr. phil. habil. Hans Rainer Sepp, M.A., mimořádný profesor Univerzity Karlovy
Class: Courses available to incoming students
Annotation -
Kafka. Reading Kafka’s texts differently – neither as more or less encrypted representations of his own biography, nor as mere descriptions of social conditions or even malpractices, nor as existential philosophy captured in literature. And yet all of this – selfhood, otherness, the philosophical relevance – certainly plays a role. But in such a way that writing reveals itself as the activating life of an individual existence, which realizes its pure existential self-experiencing from case to case, that is, from text to text: in an ongoing process that is not exhausted in the creation of narrative worlds, but rather generates layers of narrative as tests of an existential movement by placing its protagonists in a peculiar in-between—stretched between social demands and the pure a-social fact of corporeal separation. The course will focus on a few of Kafka’s stories: his early work Beschreibung eines Kampfes and his last, Der Bau, and in between, Die Verwandlung and Vor dem Gesetz.
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