Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer who lives in Amsterdam. His provocative and critically acclaimed book How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (2024) proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka's story “Investigations of a Dog.”
“Aaron Schuster’s astoundingly brilliant and original book teaches us how to think ‘like a dog’ with Kafka, the most sublime of all neurotics. Kafka’s dogs give access to a mode of thinking in which psychoanalysis, literature, and philosophy from Plato to Lacan via Feuerbach and Descartes are intertwined while magnifying each other. Schuster’s encyclopedia of dogdom opens up the dog world the way Moby Dick did with whales, each page being a pleasure to read.”
~Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In this talk, Schuster will go into more depth about the inspiration for his book and Kafka's influence on his work. There will be time for Q&A after the talk.
