2408-932XResearch Result. Social Studies and Humanities2408-932X10.18413/2408-932X-2021-7-2-0-22423RESEARCHES<strong>Hannah Arendt&#39;s Social Kafkaism. The hermeneutic experiment of 1933 and 1944</strong><strong>Hannah Arendt&#39;s Social Kafkaism. The hermeneutic experiment of 1933 and 1944</strong>KucherovaAnna О.KucherovaAnna О.kucherovaao94@gmail.com20217200

The article analyzes the early work of H.&nbsp;Arendt &quot;Franz Kafka: A revaluation&quot; (1944). This is a kind of hermeneutic experience or social understanding that develops as H. Arendt interprets F. Kafka&#39;s novels (The Castle and The Trial). Substantially, this Arendt&rsquo;s article is far from aesthetic-literary formalization; it is neither literary criticism nor an example of literary historicism. Arendt reads Kafka &ldquo;directly&rdquo;, as his contemporary, through the prism of her socio-political reality, in which her own identity is in question. The article shows that H. Arendt&#39;s intense social activity and her first experiments in social research were predetermined by her experience of reading Kafka&#39;s novels and complemented each other in this early period of her philosophical work (1930-40s), becoming a kind of methodological precedent for her major works.

The article analyzes the early work of H.&nbsp;Arendt &quot;Franz Kafka: A revaluation&quot; (1944). This is a kind of hermeneutic experience or social understanding that develops as H. Arendt interprets F. Kafka&#39;s novels (The Castle and The Trial). Substantially, this Arendt&rsquo;s article is far from aesthetic-literary formalization; it is neither literary criticism nor an example of literary historicism. Arendt reads Kafka &ldquo;directly&rdquo;, as his contemporary, through the prism of her socio-political reality, in which her own identity is in question. The article shows that H. Arendt&#39;s intense social activity and her first experiments in social research were predetermined by her experience of reading Kafka&#39;s novels and complemented each other in this early period of her philosophical work (1930-40s), becoming a kind of methodological precedent for her major works.

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