Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer (Michigan Studies In Comparative Jewish Cultures)
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Review “This reading of Kafka—so thorough, consistent, and inspired—can surprise, but it convinces; not by the aggressive assertion of a thesis, but by the quality of information, the rigor and finesse of listening; in short, by knowledge.” —Guy Petitdemange, Etudes, July 2004 In his life and writing, Kafka (1883–1924) struggled against patriarchy and anarchy. Yet, as critic Walter Benjamin once remarked, Kafka “took all conceivable precautions against the interpretation of his writings.” Löwy is circumspect and cautious in leading the reader through Kafka’s biography and opus, linking father-son antagonism and heterodox Jewish thought and anarchic protest against modernity to offer new insights. Löwy starts by analyzing Kafka's early anti-authoritarianism and in chapter 2 scours work that illustrates patriarchal autocracy (The Sons, Letter to My Father, The Trial, Metamorphosis, and Amerika). Löwy devotes the remaining chapters to The Trial, with its uncomplaining hero caught in a bureaucratic, nefarious machine; whether Kafka was religious or secular (Löwy concludes he was in no–man’s–land); The Castle and its bureaucratic despotism and voluntary servitude; the modern state as hierarchical, impersonal, and alienating; and the “Kafkaesque,” which in more than 100 languages signals inhumanity and absurdity and means the irredeemable contamination of bureaucracy. Hedges's translation from the original French (published in 2004) is excellent, and the endnotes (which serve as bibliography) are thorough. --L. J. Rippley, St. Olaf College (LJ Rippley Choice 2016-12-02) "A conceptually razor-sharp work, as historically engaging as it is pressingly relevant. In fact, it is a book that feels like a window thrown open; not just a rendition that is helpful but also one that is transformative in the sense that one’s experience of reading Kafka may never again be the same." --Solidarity (Alan Wald Solidarity 2017-05-02) Read more About the Author Michael Löwy is Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Inez Hedges is Professor of French, German, and Cinema Studies at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston. Read more
Review “This reading of Kafka—so thorough, consistent, and inspired—can surprise, but it convinces; not by the aggressive assertion of a thesis, but by the quality of information, the rigor and finesse of listening; in short, by knowledge.” —Guy Petitdemange, Etudes, July 2004 In his life and writing, Kafka (1883–1924) struggled against patriarchy and anarchy. Yet, as critic Walter Benjamin once remarked, Kafka “took all conceivable precautions against the interpretation of his writings.” Löwy is circumspect and cautious in leading the reader through Kafka’s biography and opus, linking father-son antagonism and heterodox Jewish thought and anarchic protest against modernity to offer new insights. Löwy starts by analyzing Kafka's early anti-authoritarianism and in chapter 2 scours work that illustrates patriarchal autocracy (The Sons, Letter to My Father, The Trial, Metamorphosis, and Amerika). Löwy devotes the remaining chapters to The Trial, with its uncomplaining hero caught in a bureaucratic, nefarious machine; whether Kafka was religious or secular (Löwy concludes he was in no–man’s–land); The Castle and its bureaucratic despotism and voluntary servitude; the modern state as hierarchical, impersonal, and alienating; and the “Kafkaesque,” which in more than 100 languages signals inhumanity and absurdity and means the irredeemable contamination of bureaucracy. Hedges's translation from the original French (published in 2004) is excellent, and the endnotes (which serve as bibliography) are thorough. --L. J. Rippley, St. Olaf College (LJ Rippley Choice 2016-12-02) "A conceptually razor-sharp work, as historically engaging as it is pressingly relevant. In fact, it is a book that feels like a window thrown open; not just a rendition that is helpful but also one that is transformative in the sense that one’s experience of reading Kafka may never again be the same." --Solidarity (Alan Wald Solidarity 2017-05-02) Read more About the Author Michael Löwy is Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Inez Hedges is Professor of French, German, and Cinema Studies at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston. Read more
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