All the World's a Cage: Franz Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist'

Authors

Timothy McCranor, Boston College
Steven Michels, Sacred Heart UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

To explore the meaning of the story and where Kafka might fall in the tradition of political philosophy, we will make use of two great critics of modernity: Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Comments

ISBN 9781498573658 (hardcover); 9781498573665 (eBook)

Recommended Citation

McCranor, T., & Michels, S. (2019). All the world's a cage: Franz Kafka's 'A hunger artist'. In E. A. Dolgoy, K. H. Hale, & B. Peabody (Eds.), Short stories and political philosophy: Power, prose, and persuasion (pp. 69-88). Lexington Books.