Part 1. Kafka's stories: Zarathustra on Laurentian Hill: Quetelet, Nietzsche, and Mach ("Description of a struggle")
The birth of writing from suicide statistics ("The judgment")
Ways of looking at a vermin (The metamorphosis)
The punch card and the poet's body ("In the penal colony")
Kafka and the philosophy of music; or, "Des Kommas Fehl hilft" ("Researches of a dog")
The ministry of writing (The castle)
Part 2. Kafka's person, Kafka's world: Kafka and sex
Kafka (with Nietzsche) as neo-gnostic thinkers
The calm of writing: Kafka's poetics of accident
Dissenting discourses: "I am not competent to decide that".
Franz Kafka : the ghosts in the machine by Stanley Corngold. ISBN 9780810127692. Published by Northwestern University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.