The Interpellation of the Body: Althusser and Kafka

This essay stages an encounter between Althusser’s essay on the ideological state apparatuses and Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” in order to pose the problem of the body. I argue that this encounter produces the concept of a body that exceeds the limits of the legal subject and its interpellati...

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Autor principal: Serrano, Joseph
Formato: Online
Idioma:spa
Publicado: Universidad de Costa Rica 2020
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/43132
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Sumario:This essay stages an encounter between Althusser’s essay on the ideological state apparatuses and Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” in order to pose the problem of the body. I argue that this encounter produces the concept of a body that exceeds the limits of the legal subject and its interpellation.