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  • Human Societies

    An Evolutionary Introduction to Cultural Sociology

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What if humanity’s past isn’t really past? Bernhard Giesen, during his lifetime one of the most prominent voices of German cultural sociology, believed that social and cultural forms that originated in earlier societies have not simply vanished but continue to shape our lives in often surprising ways. Consequently, he conducted his yearly introduction to cultural sociology as a tour de force ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Triumph and Trauma

    This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. The first part of the book deals ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Remembering the Holocaust

    A Debate

    Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following up with challenging and equally provocative responses to it, this book offers a sweeping ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
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  • Antisemitism

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    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    "No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this." ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of HistoryA broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust In American Life

    by Peter Novick ...
    This "courageous and thought-provoking book" examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory ( Foreign Affairs).Prize–winning historian Peter Novick explores in absorbing detail the decisions that moved the Holocaust to the center of American life. He illuminates how Jewish leaders invoked its memory to muster support for Israel, and how politicians in turn used it to ... Read more

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  • Building a National Literature

    The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

    Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a ... Read more

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  • The No-State Solution

    A Jewish Manifesto

    **A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

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  • Multidirectional Memory

    Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD