POSTMODERN VS. TRANSMODERN – KAFKA
POSTMODERN VS. TRANSMODERN – KAFKA

Summary/Abstract: The study starts from the reality that today we are experiencing a postmodernity that tends to transform into a transmodernity. As it is known, the cultural, epistemological and methodological feature of postmodernism is deconstruction. Since, through communication, postmodernism has itself become canonical, it turned into transmodernism. Deconstruction (specific to postmodernism) generated the reintegration (unification – specific to transmodernism), and postmodernism thus impregnated transmodernism. Interpreted in the contemporary context, Franz Kafka’s work proves to be actual. Kafka passes beyond his epoch, is postmodern and transmodern. Our research shows that Kafka’s actuality consists, above all, in the human values promoted in his works and in the methods of delegitimizing humanity (the tyre technique, the de-senzationalizing technique, the delegitimizing description technique, the technique of anamorphotic perspective)

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