1. Do Kafka and James Help Us?

2. FRANZ KAFKA: TOO ALERT? 1883- 1924, Born in Prague, Czech Republic Father was born poor He grew up in a upwardly mobile middle class family Little Brothers Georg and Heinrich die in early years Says his bar-mizvah was dull and meaningless Studied law and writes, gets TB in asbestos factory Virgin/whore complex or virgin/whore dichotomy Writes Passers-By between1904-1912 Lives through Industrial Age and World War One At age 28 looked 15

3. KAFKA  DOES HE THINK TOO MUCH?  IS HE ALERT?  IS HE TOO ALERT???  DOES HE PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO NEGATIVITY??

4. FRANZ KAFKA & CONTRADICTON  “ Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God“

5. FRANZ KAFKA  The look in Kafka’s eyes was always a little puzzled, full of the wisdom of children and of melancholy slightly counter pointed by an enigmatic smile. He always seemed to be somewhat embarrassed."

6. Kafka: Author of Passers-By  In Kafka we have the modern mind, intelligent, but skeptical. It plays the great game of pretending to comprehend the world in sterilized sobriety.

7. KAFKA’S CONFUSION  It is a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham

8. FRANZ KAFKA  After his own death, ( he dies from effects of Tuberculosis) his three sisters will die in the Shoah, or Holocaust. WOULD KAFKA HAVE BEEN SHOCKED? OR WOULD HE HAVE SAID: “ I SAW IT COMING !”

9. William James  1842- 1910  Born in NYC  Godfather: Ralph Waldo Emerson  Brothers Wilky and Bob fought in Civil War  Suffers depression and soul sickness  Is He himself the Man in the Club??  Father of Pragmatism

10. PRAGMATISM:  action or policy dictated by consideration of the immediate practical consequences rather than by theory or dogma

11. DO PRAGMATISTS TAKE INITIATIVE?

12. I will take steps to be a teacher and a pilot. CAN I GRADUATE?CAN I LAND THIS PLANE?

13. RISKS IN INITIATION

14. INITIATION IS IT WORTH IT??IS IT WORTH IT?

15. RISKS IN ALERTNESS  Updated, 10:30 a.m. | Hundreds of protesters from Zucotti Park clashed with the police as they tried to reach the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, and at least 50 were arrested. DOES HE SEES THE SIGNS WHAT IS HAPPENING? IS HE A HERO? A MISGUIDED FOOL?

16. WHICH IS EASIER TO SEE? TRUE OR FLASE?TRUE OR FALSE?

17. IN CLASS ESSAY  KAFKA AND JAMES PROVIDE USEFUL INSIGHTS FOR LEADERS IN THE SENIOR SEMINAR  LEADERS IN THE SENIOR SEMINAR SHOULD AVOID THE PROBLEMS THAT KAFKA AND JAMES PRESENT. THESIS 1THESIS 2