The complete series consists of the following lectures:
Lecture 1: An Introduction to Kafka: Analysis of Short Stories - June 8
Lecture 2: The Seminal Story: The Judgment - June 9
Lecture 3: The Short Novel: The Metamorphosis - July 13
Lecture 4: Understanding the Kafkaesque: The Trial - July 14
Class 5: Between Sisyphus and Schopenhauer: The Castle - August 17
Class 6: The Incomplete as a Paradigm: Amerika - August 18
Class 7: Kafka Intimate: Letters, Diaries, Letter to His Father
Class 8: In Closing: Aphorisms and Visions
Perednik is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (cum laude), and completed his PhD in Philosophy at New York University. He studied the humanities at the Sorbonne (France), San Marcos (Peru), and Uppsala (Sweden). He was honored as an outstanding professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he lectured in several languages. He was invited to give lectures at dozens of American, Spanish, and Chinese universities. He has written more than a dozen books, many of which have won international literary awards, and has published over a thousand articles on Judaism and modernity. Among his published works, we highlight the trilogy “Great Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2005), “Notable Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2006), and “Famous Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2007), published by Universidad ORT Uruguay, and “Violin in Hand: Historical Crossroads of the Jewish People” (2009), also published byUniversidad ORT Uruguay.