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  • Screening Solidarity

    Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas

    by Helga Druxes, Alexandar Mihailovic, Patricia Anne Simpson ...
    Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Inge Stephan, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Professor Margaretmary Daley, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Peter Hudis, Rachel J. Halverson0, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge1, Seth Berk2, Stephen Milder3, Almut Almut Spalding4, Anke Gilleir5, Professor Aude Defurne6, Dorothee Beck7, Friederike Brühöfener8, Helga Helga Druxes9 ...
    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

    by Lara Mazurski, Freya Klier, Alexandros Sakellariou, Chip Berlet, Kjetil Stormark, Fabian Virchow, Carol Mason, Kyle Christensen, Glen Duerr, Robert D. Duval, Justin D. Garcia, Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, Domonkos Sik, Arian Spahiu, Øyvind Strømmen, Bret Wilson, Alexandar Mihailovic ...
    With the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Navid Kermani

    Edited by Helga Druxes, Karolin Machtans, Alexandar Mihailovic ...
    Series Book 3 - Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers
    Navid Kermani – author, journalist and academic – is one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Germany today. Kermani has been at the forefront of recent debates about Islam and its role in Germany’s political, social and cultural life. Instead of emphasizing the differences between ethnic affiliations and religious beliefs, Kermani questions the Western notion of a clear dividing line ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Rudolf Steiner's Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society

    The Executive Council, the School for Spiritual Science, and the Sections

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Christian von Arnim ...
    Although the fruits of Anthroposophy--Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill, anthroposophic medicine, and so on--are relatively well known and moderately successful, their relationship to Anthroposophy and its vehicle for transmission, the General Anthroposophical Society, and the School for Spiritual Science, remains mysterious and unclear; sadly, the same is true of the meaning and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Representation of War in German Literature

    From 1800 to the Present

    by Elisabeth Krimmer ...
    The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • György Lukács

    Notizen zu Georg Simmels Vorlesungen, 1906/07, und zur »Kunstsoziologie«, ca. 1909(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 005)

    by György Lukács ...
    Series Book 5 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been deposited there in 1917. Among the sixteen hundred letters and text fragments of the collection, known as the "Heidelberg Suitcase" among researchers, was the notebook that has been partially reproduced ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Writing the Revolution

    The Construction of "1968" in Germany

    by Ingo Cornils ...
    In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radicalre-imagination of the political and economic order and social hierarchy - have been understood as requiring a "long march." While the movement has been judged at best a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Discovering Women’s History

    German-Speaking Journalists (1900–1950)

    Edited by Christa Spreizer ...
    Series Book 15 - Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture
    Discovering Women’s History brings to light the work of a selection of German-speaking women journalists from the first half of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to German life and culture, yet are barely known today. The volume builds upon scholarship on women and culture by focusing on individual journalists who published both within and outside the periodicals of women’s ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century

    by Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Travel Texts and Moving Cultures

    German Literature and the Mobilities Turn

    by Anita Perkins ...
    Series Book 22 - German Studies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
    How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places movement and travel at the centre of human experience. The author grounds her analysis in two main concepts or ways of being: ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Virtue Hoarders

    The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

    by Catherine Liu ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroismProfessional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic ... Read more

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