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• Franz Kafka

  Book Review – Michael Löwy on Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours

  1 May 2017, by WALD Alan

  FRANZ KAFKA: SUBVERSIVE Dreamer provides bracing corrections to much fuzzy thinking about the German-speaking writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) as an anguished misfit.
  In seven chapters as compact and elegant as they are erudite and engrossing, the French-Brazilian Marxist Michael Löwy delivers a (…)

• Franz Kafka

  Bureaucratic Despotism and Voluntary Servitude in Franz Kafka’s Castle

  2004, by LÖWY Michael

  The exact date and place of publication will be given as soon as possible.
  This article is an attempt at a ‘political’ reading of Kafka’s Castle, as an ironical, radical critique - from a libertarian perspective - of the despotism of the modern bureaucratic apparatus. [1] This reading is not (…)

• Franz Kafka

  Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism

  July 1997, by LÖWY Michael

  CLEARLY, THE WORK OF FRANZ KAFKA CANNOT BE REDUCED to a political doctrine of any kind. Kafka did not give speeches but fashioned individuals and situations. In his work, he expressed a Stimmung or sense of feelings and attitudes. The symbolic world of literature cannot be reduced to the (…)