Abstract
AbstractKafka’s frequently interpreted castle-village topology connects to a series of contemporary neo-mythologies that aim to re-establish a dualistic (‘allogeneic’, in Blüher’s terms) reading of the social. There, the ‘secondary life’ of the everyday world can once more be distinguished from a ‘primary life’ defined as an enhanced state of being in religious or heroic terms. However, instead of merely criticizing or deconstructing these totalizing discourses (by authors such as Martin Buber, Werner Sombart, and Hans Blüher), Kafka’s novel allows us to understand their epochal attraction by carefully retracing them as assemblages in terms of actor network theory.
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