Friday, September 4, 2015

Kafka on Identity Theory



The (dis)solution of the Jewish Question:

Was habe ich mit Juden gemeinsam?   Ich habe kaum etwas mit mir gemeinsam.
-- Franz Kafka, Tagebücher:  Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahre 1914

(“What have I in common with the Jews?  I have scarcely anything in common with myself!”)

Subsequent fictional embodiment:  "Schakale und Araber" (1917);  anent which, canny observations here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackals_and_Arabs

Further epigrams on the subject of 
        similarity/sameness/equality/self-identity
        Same Difference


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