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THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE

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THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE

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This study’s main objective is to argue that Kafka, in The Trial, does not merely stage an irrational situation in which the supremacy of law appears illusory, revealed through a juridical labyrinth. Instead, the study aims to show that Kafka ideologically creates the impossibility of the liberal Rechtsstaat within an ambiguated and irrational judicial space. This means that The Trial is not an absurd account or mise-en-scène of an unlawful legal process that befalls an ordinary individual/citizen; in an ontological sense, it is a novel of material lawlessness in which the impossibility of what we call the rule of law, or the Rechtsstaat, is fictionally produced. Based on this claim, the study aims to argue that two simple factors enable The Trial to accomplish this creation: (1) the fictional fact that all events in the novel unfold entirely within a condition/state of peace, rather than in a state of emergency or a state of war; (2) the foregrounding of the ideological dimension of law -not only in terms of its masking or mystifying functions, but (re)structuring and reproducing affection of the social reality.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Hukuk ve Beşeri Bilimler, Hukuk (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Ocak 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

23 Aralık 2025

Kabul Tarihi

24 Ocak 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Karadağ, U. (2026). THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE. Periodicum Iuris, 4(1), 123-139. https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK
AMA
1.Karadağ U. THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE. PI Dergi. 2026;4(1):123-139. https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK
Chicago
Karadağ, Ulaş. 2026. “THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE”. Periodicum Iuris 4 (1): 123-39. https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK.
EndNote
Karadağ U (01 Ocak 2026) THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE. Periodicum Iuris 4 1 123–139.
IEEE
[1]U. Karadağ, “THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE”, PI Dergi, c. 4, sy 1, ss. 123–139, Oca. 2026, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK
ISNAD
Karadağ, Ulaş. “THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE”. Periodicum Iuris 4/1 (01 Ocak 2026): 123-139. https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK.
JAMA
1.Karadağ U. THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE. PI Dergi. 2026;4:123–139.
MLA
Karadağ, Ulaş. “THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE”. Periodicum Iuris, c. 4, sy 1, Ocak 2026, ss. 123-39, https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK.
Vancouver
1.Ulaş Karadağ. THE LEGAL REALISM OF KAFKA’S THE TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE TOTAL JURIDIFICATION OF LIFE. PI Dergi [Internet]. 01 Ocak 2026;4(1):123-39. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA66FY27BK