How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science

Schuster, Aaron

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-10
  • 售價: $1,430
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,359
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 352
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262543540
  • ISBN-13: 9780262543545
  • 相關分類: Message Queue
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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本挑釁性的書籍,提出了一個對當今哲學的新且驚人的啟發來源——來自卡夫卡故事《狗的調查》中那隻犬類思想家。

《狗的調查》(Forschungen eines Hundes,1922)是卡夫卡生命末期所寫的作品之一,也是作者作品中較不為人知且最具神秘感的作品。卡夫卡的這個哲學冒險故事講述了一隻孤獨且不適應的狗,挑戰既有科學的教條主義,並開創了一個原創的研究計畫,以追尋自我及其世界的奧秘。在《如何像狗一樣研究》中,亞倫·舒斯特(Aaron Schuster)將這隻犬類作為導盲犬,重新發現卡夫卡的虛構宇宙,同時支持這位聰明、被佔有、憂鬱、滑稽且革命性的思想家。

這本迷人且特立獨行的書籍既不是文學批評的練習,也不是傳統的哲學評論,而是與卡夫卡的狗的研究計畫相一致。它基於四重的食物、音樂、咒語和自由的劃分,構建了一個「不可能」的系統——或者換句話說:享受、藝術、制度和自由。從柏拉圖到福樓拜、莉斯佩克托和拉康,舒斯特將這隻狗與精神分析理論、哲學史和現代文學進行對話。想像卡夫卡的新科學所呼喚的「未知大學」,這本書招募了新的夥伴來支持狗的鬥爭。

作者簡介

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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

亞倫·舒斯特是一位哲學家和作家,居住在阿姆斯特丹。他的第一本書《快樂的困擾:德勒茲與精神分析》也是短路系列中的一本。