Kafka and Kierkegaard’s Abrahams or the Knight of Faith versus the Schlemiel – Take 2
By way of a comic narrator, Kafka’s readings of Abraham and his creation of “other Abrahams” are educational: they teach us how the other Abrahams are. I would suggest that, for Kafka, his Abrahams are schlemiels who, while acknowledging Kierkegaard’s Passionate Knight of Faith, also offer a challenge to it. Instead of passion and concentration […]