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Book Chapter
Soils
2024
Overview
This chapter focuses on the animal narrators of two late Franz Kafka works: Der Bau (“The Burrow,” 1931) and Forschungen eines Hundes (“Investigations of a Dog,” 1931). What one might call a late Kafkan inhumanism emerges through acts of faith and acts of striving, on the part of these narrators, toward the ainigma of the earth's generation, to and past the point of complete self-abandonment. For both burrower and dog-philosopher, all philosophy and all knowing proceeds from relations with the “nourishing earth” and what is given in its soils. Burrowing, as the chapter explores, becomes devotion to what of earth is unpossessable—the unseen sound, most particularly, and what is engendered from the burrower's fantasies of it—even if this devotion leads to the unmaking of the self, or the fracturing of self into many selves. Similarly, dog-philosophy begins from the ancient canine wisdom on which all dog being is founded.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
1501776495, 9781501776496
