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Kafka and Wittgenstein on religious language

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“You do not believe because you do not follow me”. Jesus, in Tolstoy’sGospel in Brief.

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  1. “Von den Gleichnissen” in: Franz Kafka,Saemtliche Erzaehlungen, ed. Paul Raabe (Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Verlag, 1969), p. 359. (My translation. The piece has also been translated as “On Parables.”)

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  5. Cf. Ludwig Wittgenstein,Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. by Cyril Barrett (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1966), p. 63.

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  6. Friedrich Waismann,Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis, ed. B. F. McGuinness (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1967) p. 117. (My translation).

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  8. Letter to Ludwig von Ficker, July 24, 1915, in:Ludwig Wittgenstein: Briefe an Ludwig von Ficker, ed. George Henrick von Wright and Walter Methlagl (Salzburg: Otto Mueller Verlag, 1969), p. 28.

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Bramann, J.K. Kafka and Wittgenstein on religious language. SOPH 14, 1–9 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02784636

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