On the Mimesis of Reification: Adorno’s Critical Theoretical Interpretation of Kafka
In Brendan Moran & Carlo Salzani (eds.),
Philosophy and Kafka. New York, NY, USA: pp. 229-242 (
2013)
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Abstract
The case of Kafka stands at the very centre of Adorno’s articulation of modernist mimesis. His main study of Kafka is the long and complex essay “Notes on Kafka” (1953), which he republished in the collection Prisms (1955). But numerous references to Kafka are found throughout his unfinished masterpiece, Aesthetic Theory (first published in 1970) and in the four part collection of essays, Notes to Literature.