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  • A Life of Solid Principles

    The Philosopher of Extremes

    by Edgar Bauer, Charles Barbour ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that casts new light on the Young Hegelian movement and, possibly, Karl Marx.In early 1843, the Young Hegelian philosopher and activist Edgar Bauer published a comic novella titled Es leben feste Grundsätze! or A Life of Solid Principles! It told the story of an idealistic young journalist ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Derrida's Secret

    Perjury, Testimony, Oath

    by Charles Barbour ...
    Series series Incitements

    $27.29 USD

  • The Marx Machine

    Politics, Polemics, Ideology

    by Charles Barbour ...
    Karl Marx has rarely, if ever, been treated as a writer. Charles Barbour argues not only that we can examine the literary and rhetorical aspects of Marx’s texts, but also that, as soon as we begin to do so, those texts begin to take on new and entirely unexpected political implications. In the past, Marx scholars have characterized his literary remains as either a relatively coherent body of work, ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • After Sovereignty

    On the Question of Political Beginnings

    Edited by Charles Barbour, George Pavlich ...
    After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain, establishment of either a new international American ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Outsider as Insider

    by Peter Gay ...
    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I ... Read more

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Read more

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  • The Brothers Grimm

    A Biography

    by Ann Schmiesing ...
    The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm“Magisterial.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rahel Varnhagen

    The Life of a Jewish Woman

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Translated by Clara Winston, Richard Winston ...
    A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt.Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt’s first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Goethe

    His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    ** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **'W****ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Literary Review'Passionate' - The TimesA spellbinding recreation of Goethe's life and work from one of our greatest biographers.Goethe was the inventor of the psyc... ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

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  • The Law of Blood

    Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
    Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...
    Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Boyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... Read more

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  • Magnus Hirschfeld

    The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement

    by Ralf Dose ...
    Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, Hirschfeld’s legacy resonates throughout the twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his motto “Through Science Toward Justice,” Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanitarian Committee ... Read more

    $17.09 USD