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Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" as model of ipseity in Levinasian theory.(Critical Essay)

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From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20040901
Author:Stahman, Laura

Taking the interpretive cues from the philosophical insights of Emmanuel Levinas, this essay argues that Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" may be read (post-Heidegger) as a critique of the fundamental ontology that posits "being-toward-death" and absolute understanding of being as the primary mode and concern of human existence.

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In laboring possession reduces to the same what at first presented 
itself as other. Despite the infinite extension of needs it makes 
possible, economic existence remains within the same (just as animal 
existence). Its movement is ...

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