ABSTRACT

The point of this chapter is to set out the conceptual framework of enactive perception which I’ll use in the following chapters to analyse Kafka’s writing. In Chapter Two I’ll consider Kafka’s personal reflections on cognitive-perceptual issues, and in Chapter Three I’ll explore the cognitive-perceptual structures and the effects of his evocations of the fictional world of Der Proceß (The Trial). Then in Chapter Four I’ll expand on this framework to include enactive emotion in connection with perception, specifically perspective.