the deficiency of Kafka's parables explicity as their failure to transmit truth
This time Benjamin sees the deficiency of Kafka's parables explicity as their failure to transmit truth and argues that in order to "do justice to the figure of Kafka," it is essential to confront the significance of this failure without apologies.
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the term "failure"
Benjamin's use of the term "failure" is motivated by his audience - who believes with Brecht that Kafka is indeed a failure. But perhaps that is not what Benjamin would like to say? the "failure" here is a success -...
Benjamin's use of the term "failure" is motivated by his audience - who believes with Brecht that Kafka is indeed a failure. But perhaps that is not what Benjamin would like to say? the "failure" here is a success -...
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