2025/02/02 by Vignola, Paolo
#FOS: Law #Immanence #Law #Philosophical Humour #Transcendence #conceptual personae
paper · doi:10.13137/1825-5167/36351
The paper aims to highlight the figure of Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's The Trial, as a conceptual character invented by Deleuze and Guattari, whose function is to dismantle the image of the law and to develop some useful elements for the development of an original perspective on law and justice. In doing so, we first proceed with a brief reconnaissance of the relationship between Deleuze and law through a selection of the critical literature; then, we provide the elements useful for understanding the status and functions of conceptual characters in Deleuze and Guattari; finally, the paper focuses on the figure of Josef K as a conceptual character of law in the chapter "Immanence and Desire” of Kafka. For a minor literature. In this focus, we explore the problematics of the transcendence and unknowability of the law as experienced by Josef K, its lying and guilt-inducing character, as well as the concepts of justice, immanence and desire presented by Deleuze and Guattari as an antidote to these characteristics of the law.