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Somebody Else's Choices: Goethe, Dostoevsky, Weber, Jung, Florensky and Kafka in 600 Facts
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Series: The Curious Mind Library, Book 23
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ISBN13: 9798175933087
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 734
Weight: 2.76
Height: 1.47 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 734
Weight: 2.76
Height: 1.47 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
What happens between what an author writes and what the world reads? In Somebody Else's Choices, Cornelis van Houte explores the hidden hands that shaped six bodies of work. Across six standalone books of 100 facts each-collecting Goethe, Dostoevsky, Max Weber, Jung, Pavel Florensky, and Kafka-this omnibus investigates how texts reached their audience through the interventions of censors, widows, translators, heirs, executors, and the state.
Discover:
- Goethe, who was right about biological morphology but dangerously wrong about optics, and who ranked his failed scientific theories far above Faust.
- Dostoevsky, whose serialised novels and encounters with tsarist censors locked his most controversial ideas directly into print.
- Max Weber, whose scattered drafts were posthumously assembled into a framework he never intended as a standalone book.
- Jung, whose red leather folio was locked away by his family for decades while questionnaires bearing his name were built against his will.
- Pavel Florensky, the mathematician-priest whose work survived Soviet labor camps and state execution.
- Kafka, whose explicit dying wish to burn his manuscripts was defied by Max Brod to create modern literature.
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