A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today--the canine thinker from Kafka's story "Investigations of a Dog." Written toward the end of Kafka's life, "Investigations of a Dog" (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author's oeuvre. Kafka's tale of philosophical adventure is that of a lone, maladjusted dog who challenges the dogmatism...