The Cloak as Hard as Steel
by softarcades
(The following was originally published on Version.org on May 11, 2010. Each Version editorial item adheres to the following formal constraint: a maximum of 500 words, 5 images, or 50 seconds.) One of the most important moments in the German sociologist Max Weber’s career happened 25 years after his death; when his wife, first cousin, and biographer, Marianne, destroyed the history of his nervous breakdown. Max worked relentlessly on the document until his death in 1920. Only Marianne had read […]
Categories: Kafka, Version • Tags: Arcades Project, Franz Kafka, Manhattan, Max Weber, Walter Benjamin
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