Term Project

The Project on Kafka

• Kafka (Steven Soderbergh, 1991)
• Löwy, Michael, Franz Kafka: Boyun EÄŸmeyen Hayalperest [translated by Işık Ergüden] (Ä°stanbul: Versus Kitap, 2008)

Readings for the Term Project on Kafka

• Althusser, Louis, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," in Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays [translated by Ben Brewster] (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1971), pp.127-186.
• Altınoluk DüztaÅŸ, Duygu, Franz Kafka Romanlarında Ä°nsan DoÄŸası üzerine Sosyolojik bir Ä°nceleme (M.A. Thesis, Ege Üniversitesi, 2013)
• Banakar, Reza, "In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka's Concept of law," Law & Literature, 22/3 (2010), pp.463-490.
• Chaput, Edgar, "There Is a Bucket Full of Reasons Why Steven Soderbergh's Kafka Is Amazing," Goompa Stomp & Sordid Cinema, April 3, 2020.
• Ciment, Michel and Hubert Niogret, "An Exploration of the Work Kafka," in Anthony Kaufman (ed.), Steven Soderbergh Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015), pp.24-33.
• Clegg, Stewart et al, "Kafkaesque Power and Bureaucracy," Journal of Political Power, 9/2 (2016), pp.157-181.
• Cohn, Jesse, "'Don't Trust Anybody, Not Even Us': Kafka's Realism as Anarchist Modernism," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 35/2 (2011), pp.295-315.
• Çataloluk, Gökçe, "Hukukçunun Hukuk Karşıtı Tutumunun Edebi Dışavurumu: Dr. Franz Kafka ve ve Dava'sı," Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Hukuk AraÅŸtırmaları Dergisi, 17/1-2 (2011), pp.235-264.
• Danoff, Brian, "Arendt, Kafka, and the Nature of Totalitarianism," Perspectives on Political Science, 29/4 (2000), pp.211-218.
• Dodd, Bill, "The Case for a Political Reading," in Julian Preece (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp.131-149.
• Fleming, Chris and Jon O'Carroll, "Delusions of Agency: Kafka, Imprisonment, and Modern Victimhood," in A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp.29-48.
• KadıoÄŸlu, Deniz, Kafka'da Ä°ktidar, Hukuk ve Adalet (M.A. Thesis, Ä°stanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2011)
• Kadıpınar, Ufuk, YabancılaÅŸmanın DiyalektiÄŸi: Hegel, Marx ve Kafka üzerine bir AraÅŸtırma (M.A. Thesis, Ä°stanbul Üniversitesi, 2001)
• Keskin, UÄŸur, "Franz Kafka'nın Eserlerinde Aşırı Bürokrasi ve Otoriter Yönetici Ä°mgesi," Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Ä°ktisadi ve Ä°dari Bilimler Dergisi, 17/2 (2016), pp.253-273.
• Kiebuzinska, Christine, "Kafka Betrayed: Or Reflections on Kaflaogy," in her Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama (London: Associated University Presses, 2001), pp.261-281.
• Litowitz, Douglas, "Max Weber and Franz Kafka: A Shared Vision of Modern Law," Law, Culture and the Humanities, 7/1 (2011), pp.48-65.
• Löwy, Michael, "Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism," New Politics, 6/3 (Summer 1997)
• Löwy, Michael, "Book Review of Derek Sayer (ed.), Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)," Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 21/1 (2013), pp.117-120.
• McCabe, Darren, "The Tyranny of Distance: Kafka and the Problem of Distance in Bureaucratic Organizations," Organization, 22/1 (2015), pp.58-77.
• Norton, Ben, "Kafka, the Quiet Anarchist," in Ben Norton: Jornalist, Writer, Filmmaker, July 21, 2013.
• Öcal, Faik, Franz Kafka'nın Romanlarında Devlet-Birey Ä°liÅŸkisi (M.A. Thesis, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, 2004)
• Politzer, Heinz, "Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father," The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 28/3 (1953), pp.165-179.
• Ritzer, Ivo, "Philosophical Reflections on Steven Soderbergh's Kafka," in R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders (eds.), The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011), pp.145-158.
• Robertson, Richie, Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
• Sayer, Derek, "Prague at the End of History," New Perspectives, 26/3 (2018), pp.1-11.
• Sivri, Medine and Fulya Çelik, "'Ceza Sömürgesi' ve Otoriteryanizme Kafkaesk bir Yaklaşım," Folklor/Edebiyat, 22/2 (2016), pp.77-92.
• Stach, Reiner, "Death by Data: How Kafka's The Trial Prefigured the Nightmare of the Modern Surveillance State," New Statesman, January 16, 2014.
• Tall, Emily, "Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka?: Kafka Criticism in the Soviet Union," Slavic Review, 35/3 (September 1976), pp.484-503.
• Taylor, Dan, "Book Review of Michael Löwy, Franz Kafka, Subversive Dreamer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016)," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 18/2 (2019), pp.255-256.
• Warner, Malcolm, "Kafka, Weber and Organization Theory," Human Relations, 60/7 (2007), pp.1019-1038.
• Winterhalter, Benjamin, "Franz Kafka's The Trial: It's Funny Because It's True," JSTOR Daily, July 2, 2019.
• "Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka?" Index on Censorship, 4/3 (1975), pp.76-77.
• Zilcosky, John, "Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State," in Calin-Andrei Mihailescu and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (eds.), Policing Literary Theory (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), pp.166-177.