Freedom from the Free Will

Freedom from the Free WillBrings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory. Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes' futile attempts

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Paolo Lucentini and Antonella Sannino: Recommendatio astronomiae: un anonimo trattato del secolo XV in difesa dell’astrologia e della magia

commodity culture

as well as the superficial nature of romance

etiology and risk factors

and explores how Scotland came to be seen as a wellspring of fierce primal masculinity

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He was close to many of the period's most influential literary figures—poets Allen Ginsberg

part poetic meditation on time and memory

Challenging the traditional understanding of Gordion's history

is a complex and evolving area of science

While 20th century gains in agricultural productivity enabled rising levels of food security