Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault

Nicholas Dungey is professor of political philosophy in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Northridge.

By reading Kafka through Foucault, Dungey illuminates and deepens Kafka's striking claim that he was nothing but literature and could not and did not want to be anything else. In Dungey's close analysis, Kafka's life as a work of art becomes both an act of self-creation that contains its own dangers and possibilities and a form of resistance that contests the normalizing forces of society. -- P.E. Digeser, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

• Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Power, Discourse, and SubjectivityChapter 2: Disciplinary Power and the Apparatus in Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”Chapter 3: Disciplinary Power, The Law, and the Arrest in The TrialChapter 4: Writing, Resistance, and FreedomChapter 5: Writing and the Art of Self-CreationConclusionBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex