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  • Selected Writings

    A Journey in Intellectual History (1988–2025)

    Series Book 1 - The Best of Scholars and Scholarship in the Humanities
    Elliot Neaman studied history and philosophy in Vancouver, Canada, Zürich, and Berlin before completing a doctorate in Modern European Intellectual History under the supervision of internationally known historian Martin Jay at Berkeley in 1993. The works contained in this volume of his selected writings are drawn from publications from 1988 to the present. They provide the reader with access to ... Read more

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  • Beckett/Philosophy

    This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings ... Read more

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  • The Dialectical Imagination

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  • On Hitler's Mein Kampf

    The Poetics of National Socialism

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