"We have come to expect from Schuster not the usual, quirky, willed originality of much contemporary theory but something intriguing, and acute, and evocative in the most unusual way. How to Research Like a Dog is neither dogged nor unduly thorough; it is endlessly interesting." --Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst; essayist; author of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life and On Giving Up "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 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences "In this seriously funny book, Schuster searches Kafka's 'Investigations of a Dog' for the key to the author's universe, knowing that if one were found, the universe would collapse. Brilliant arguments, disguised as jokes, bloom throughout like parachutes to keep both the intricacies of the search and the universe miraculously afloat." --Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University "The rule of capital is to work like a dog--alienated, underpaid, exploited.

Schuster, following Kafka's canine, sketches another possibility: to research like a dog and learn to 'wriggle out through the gaps' toward freedom." --Paul Fleming, L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities and Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University.