Bureaucratic Fanatics Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization 1st Edition by Benjamin Lewis Robinson ISBN 3110595192 ‎ 978-3110595192

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ISBN 10: 3110595192 ‎

ISBN 13:  978-3110595192

Author: Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER 1

Bureaucratic Fanaticism

• Exceptions (Agamben, Schmitt, Kierkegaard)

• Bureaucracy as a Vocation (Kant, Weber)

• Abstraction (Hegel, Marx)

• The Confusion of the Present Age (Kierkegaard I)

• 1848 – More Confusion (Kierkegaard II)

• Another Kind of Despair (Kierkegaard III)

A New Kind of Schwärmer: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas

CHAPTER 2

Wolves and Mad Dogs

• Schwärmerei

• Bear Nature and Bureaucracy

• Humanity?

• Nags – and Other Negligible Things

• Bureaucrat against Bureaucracy

• Doubt, Forgiveness, and the Givenness of das Vergebliche

• The Gypsy Soothsayer

CHAPTER 3

Architecture of the Office: Melville’s Bartleby

• Of Offices

• In the Office

• Insecurities

• Easiness

• What Is to Be Done?

• “Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!”

• Vagrancy

CHAPTER 4

Abstraction of the Earth: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

• Disfigurements

• Ivory, Ideas, Rivets

• The Outraged Law

• Voice, Voices

CHAPTER 5

Poverty of Agency: Conrad’s The Secret Agent

• Temperature

• A Period of Reaction

• Dulling Agents

• Outcast London

• Institutional Agencies and Dependencies

• “Poor Stevie”

• Actions and Accidents

• Winnie, “the free woman”

• Blank Wall

CHAPTER 6

State of Embarrassment: Kafka’s In the Penal Colony

• The Postcolonial Moment

• Pain after Punishment

• Beyond Doubt – The Officer

• Beyond Doubt – The Research Traveler

• Postcolony

• The Harbor

CHAPTER 7

Society of Security: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

• Security and Its Discontents

• Authenticity

• Who Cares? / Wen juckts?

• Indiscreet Disclosures

• Carefree Comportments

• Bites of Conscience: Guilt, Debt, Hunger

• Family Ties

• Dying from Taste

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