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Abstract

In this paper, I discuss a hypothetical relationship between the Kafkan question of the law, as developed in the conversation that Josef K. and the priest hold in The Process, concerning the exegesis of the fable Before the Law, and the Kantian conception of the moral law, as exposed in the second Critique and in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. I suggest that this relationship refers on the one hand to a certain in-determined (and in-determinable) character of the law in itself, and, on the other, to the determination by the law of the singular subject involved in each case, a determination that bears an index of questionability by virtue of the aforesaid in-determinacy.