PHILOS 1C03 Lecture : Philosophy in Lit.-Jan.26 The Metamorphosis
8 Mar 2012
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The trial, the castle, in the penal colony, The metamorphosis: possible interpretations: a story about how society deals with disfigurement and disability, a story about how an individual deals with disfigurement and disability, comment on the bureaucratic society and its demands. Untrusting of employees: comment on the relationship of an authoritarian father and his son. Do we have to speak: how do selves and others react when some of the assumed basic conditions of humanity are absent. Setting the scene gregor metamorphosis and immediate reactions (67-87) Interlude secondary transformations (of both gregor and his family)(87-110) Family is forced to work again, to make up for gregor"s inability to work. Injured by his father and isolated in his room. Decline and death final transformation of gregor (death) and of the family (life)(110-132) What is a human being: descartes: Aware of his situation throughout: gregor"s losses: Is having a body central to our ability to think.
