Current Issue
Two years (and counting) after the centennial of Franz Kafka’s death, critical reflection on his work remains very much alive. This special issue of Konturen focuses on two major strands that continue to deepen and challenge our understanding of a writer whose prose has been the subject of so much extant writing already.
Introduction
Konturen ("contours" or "outlines") — an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the analysis of borders, framing determinations, and related figures of delimitation of all kinds. These include theoretical and historical, practical and speculative, aesthetic, political, and methodological borders, among others. "Konturen" is a German word that derives from the French tour, tourner, terms that bespeak a turning, such as the turning of a French word into a German one (or the reverse). We publish innovative work that takes into account the contributions of recent philosophy and theory to an understanding of problematic discursive places of meeting, overlap, or disjunction. Konturen currently publishes one Special Issue annually, constituted through invited submissions and calls for papers.
