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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle

Leah Tomkins
The Open University, UK

2019 17 (1) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstrakt

This paper explores the politics of interpretation from the perspective of hermeneutic theory. It presents a reading of Kafka’s novel The Castle focused on critique of the business of interpretation, where suspicion unfolds in distorted, possibly fraudulent, sense making between protagonist, narrator and reader. The protagonist’s mission is neither heroic nor a call to resistance to bureaucratic absurdity, but instead, the result of hubris, hoax, or even a slip of the pen, and it becomes impossible to unpick the perils of bureaucracy from the perils of interpretation, or to distinguish between error and insight. In mining discrepancies between justification, effort and reward of interpretation, Kafka punctures the mythology of understanding, rupturing the near-sacrosanct hermeneutic connection between interpretation and meaning. His work undermines both objective and subjective understandings, leaving us distrustful of both expert and experiential perspectives. In a post-truth era with its ‘alternative facts’, The Castle feels startlingly fresh and relevant.

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APA style

Tomkins, Leah (2019). ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle. (2019). ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 17(1), 37-49. (Original work published 2019)

MLA style

Tomkins, Leah. „‘He’S Not The Messiah, He’S A Very Naughty Boy!’ Radicalising Hermeneutics With Kafka’S The Castle”. 2019. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, t. 17, nr 1, 2019, ss. 37-49.

Chicago style

Tomkins, Leah. „‘He’S Not The Messiah, He’S A Very Naughty Boy!’ Radicalising Hermeneutics With Kafka’S The Castle”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 17, nr 1 (2019): 37-49.