Agamben's Joyful Kafka

Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben''s references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben''s claims that ''it is a very poor reading of Kafka''s works that sees in them only a summation of t...