{"title":"The Possibility of Jewish Primitivism","authors":"S. Spinner","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 presents Franz Kafka as a Jewish primitivist. This runs counter to the prevailing view that sees Kafka apart from broader trends in European Jewish literature. Kafka’s works connect the contradictions of Jewish primitivism to his ambivalence about his Jewish identity. This perspective casts a new light on several of Kafka’s core texts, including “Before the Law” and “A Report to an Academy.” Kafka’s presumed avoidance of introducing Jewishness into his aesthetics is actually a manifestation of the instability and critique of authenticity at the heart of Jewish primitivism.","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"57 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jewish Primitivism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 3 presents Franz Kafka as a Jewish primitivist. This runs counter to the prevailing view that sees Kafka apart from broader trends in European Jewish literature. Kafka’s works connect the contradictions of Jewish primitivism to his ambivalence about his Jewish identity. This perspective casts a new light on several of Kafka’s core texts, including “Before the Law” and “A Report to an Academy.” Kafka’s presumed avoidance of introducing Jewishness into his aesthetics is actually a manifestation of the instability and critique of authenticity at the heart of Jewish primitivism.