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Det andra ansiktet: Etik och moral i Kafkas Förvandlingen utifrån Lavey respektive Levinas
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
2025 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
The Other Face : Ethics and Morals in The Metamorphosis by Kafka based on LaVey and Levinas, respectively (English)
Abstract [en]

This essay examines ethics and morality in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis (1915) based on Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics and Anton Szandor LaVey’s satanic ethics. The analysis begins by exploring LaVey's Satanic ethics and connection to the work, followed by Levinas’s ethics and philosophy in correlation to the characters. In the comparative analysis, the initial questions are further developed by pitting the two ethics against each other and allowing a dialogue to take place. The essay concludes with a summary and a final discussion that condenses the primary thoughts of the text and emphasizes the complexity of the ethical values in the work. Furthermore, it highlights the similarity between the two ethics when discussing the counterpart with the main distinction lying in how they justify actions. Finally, the conclusion presents a closing interpretation of the ending of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, offering insights into its possible meaning. 

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2025. , p. 31
Keywords [en]
Levinas, LaVeyan satanism, The Metamorphosis, Ethics, Morals, the Other
Keywords [sv]
Levinas, LaVey satanism, Förvandlingen, etik, moral, den andre
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General Literature Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-235038OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-235038DiVA, id: diva2:1934882
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Programme for Literary Studies and Creative Writing
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Available from: 2025-02-07 Created: 2025-02-05 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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