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2019 |
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p15325555 |
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abstract |
This paper explores the politics of interpretation from the perspective of hermeneutic
theory. It presents a reading of Kafka’s novel The Castle focused on critique of
the business of interpretation, where suspicion unfolds in distorted, possibly fraudulent,
sense-making between protagonist, narrator and reader. The protagonist’s mission
is neither heroic nor a call to resistance to bureaucratic absurdity, but instead,
the result of hubris, hoax, or even a slip of the pen, and it becomes impossible to
unpick the perils of bureaucracy from the perils of interpretation, or to distinguish
between error and insight. In mining discrepancies between justification, effort
and reward of interpretation, Kafka punctures the mythology of understanding, rupturing
the near-sacrosanct hermeneutic connection between interpretation and meaning. His
work undermines both objective and subjective understandings, leaving us distrustful
of both expert and experiential perspectives. In a post-truth era with its ‘alternative
facts’, The Castle feels startlingly fresh and relevant. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955791 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955792 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955793 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955794 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955795 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/955796 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/961878 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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Tomkins, Leah ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’: Radicalising
hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle. Tamara, the Journal of Critical Organization
Inquiry (In Press). |
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label |
Tomkins, Leah (2019). ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’: Radicalising
hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle. Tamara, the Journal of Critical Organization
Inquiry (In Press). |
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label |
Tomkins, Leah (2019). ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’: Radicalising
hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle. Tamara, the Journal of Critical Organization
Inquiry (In Press). |
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Title |
‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’: Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s
<i>The Castle</i> |
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Title |
‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’: Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s
The Castle |
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oro |