Author presentation and discussion with Jamieson Webster and Evan Calder Williams
Join us for a presentation by Aaron Schuster on his latest book How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024), followed by a conversation between the author, Jamieson Webster, and Evan Calder Williams.
How to Research Like a Dog proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.” Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Kafka’s quixotic tale of adventures-in-theory is that of a lone, maladjusted hound who challenges the dogmatism of dog science and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world. Schuster uses the investigative canine as a guide dog to rediscover Kafka’s fictional universe, while taking up the cause of this ingenious, possessed, melancholy, comical, and revolutionary thinker.
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