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Moral Responsibility In The Age Of Bureaucracy, David Luban, Alan Strudler, David Wasserman
Moral Responsibility In The Age Of Bureaucracy, David Luban, Alan Strudler, David Wasserman
Michigan Law Review
No twentieth-century writer has thought so deeply, or so yearningly, about natural law as Franz Kafka. Kafka's is a world in which we seek desperately to know the natural law that is sovereign in human affairs but find that knowledge of the law is withheld from us. For this reason, we lead our lives in a state of, if not original sin, then original guilt - guilt for violating the law, or perhaps guilt for not knowing the law, despite the fact that we wish to know it.
The Trial is Kafka's greatest elaboration of this theme. Joseph K. is …