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Republic of Plato
Av Allan Bloom, Adam Kirsch m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
253 kr
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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and valuable essay,as well as indices,which will better …
The Republic of Plato
Av Adam Kirsch, Allan Bloom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
422 kr
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The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy."To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth." -Adam Kirsch, from …
Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics
Summer 2025
Av Ian Buruma, John Banville m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
184 kr
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Culture as Counterculture
Essays on Literature and Ideas
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2027
463 kr
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In Culture as Counterculture, leading literary critic and intellectual Adam Kirsch explores the question of how 21st-century religion, art, and science engage with the past, and are both re-enlivened and redefined by it.Since the early 20th-century, "high culture"-particularly classical music-has …
Why Trilling Matters
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2013
460 kr
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The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth centuryLionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary …
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?
And Other Essays
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2019
267 kr
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From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the twoAdam Kirsch is one of today’s finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus …
Modern Element
Essays on Contemporary Poetry
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2008
645 kr
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Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—“one of the most promising young poet-critics in America” (Los Angeles Times)—has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure to cause heated …
Rocket and Lightship
Essays on Literature and Ideas
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2014
309 kr
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Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute—[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E.M. Forster, …
Wounded Surgeon
Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets
Häftad, 2005
361 kr
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Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz formed one of the great constellations of talent in American literature. In the decades after World War II, they changed American poetry forever by putting themselves at risk in their poems in a new …
People and the Books
18 Classics of Jewish Literature
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2017
209 kr
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Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish …
Blessing and the Curse
The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2021
195 kr
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Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of Jews out of …
Benjamin Disraeli
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2008
216 kr
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Part of the Jewish Encounter series A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the …
Global Novel
Writing the World in the 21st Century
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2017
137 kr
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. What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel , acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century''s best-known writers-- including Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mohsin Hamid, Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, Michel …
Life in Culture
Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling
Av Lionel Trilling, Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2019
202 kr
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A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our …
On Settler Colonialism
Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2024
244 kr
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Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last 7 October, the term “settler colonialism” has become a centre of political debate in the United States. Many progressives, academics and student organisations justified the attack on the grounds that Israel is a settler colonial state, meaning that it was created …
Emblems of the Passing World
Poems after Photographs by August Sander
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2015
285 kr
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August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August Sander, the …
Invasions
New Poems
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2008
192 kr
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In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. Mr. …
Discarded Life
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2022
132 kr
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In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks—from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster—to tell a story of emotional and …
Discarded Life
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2022
103 kr
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In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks—from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster—to tell a story of emotional and …
Come and Hear - What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2021
287 kr
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Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years—Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. An …
Revolt Against Humanity
Imagining a Future Without Us
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2023
151 kr
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Should we welcome the end of humanity?In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and …
Revolt Against Humanity
Imagining a Future Without Us
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2023
172 kr
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Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, …
Z Word
Reclaiming Zionism: Jewish Quarterly 260
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2025
194 kr
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In the aftermath of October 7, Zionism has increasingly been used by critics of Israel as a term of derision. From university campuses to TikTok and Twitter/X, the term is employed as a self-evident slur that presumes that Zionists are racist and supremacist. Yet, as Adam Kirsch writes in this …
La revolta contra la humanitat
Imaginar un futur sense nosaltres
Av Adam Kirsch
E-bok, 2024
109 kr
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«Volem ser déus o no? Volem ser humans o no ho volem? La humanitat es pot superar ella mateixa? Kirsch recull les aportacions de pensadors que cal tenir molt en compte en el nostre futur immediat i en el futur dels futurs» Eudald Carbonell.Adam Kirsch recorre a la filosofia, la ciència, la …
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Winter 2024
Av Carissa Veliz, Adam Kirsch m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
188 kr
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Liberties , a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this edition of Liberties: Carissa Veliz — The Technology of Bullshit; Adam Kirsch — LiteratureGPT; Ryan Ruby — Reading and Time; Michael Walzer — Notes on A …
People and the Books
18 Classics of Jewish Literature
Av Adam Kirsch
Inbunden, 2016
302 kr
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Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish …
Global Novel
Writing the World in the 21st Century
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2017
146 kr
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What will 21st century fiction look like? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, and Margaret Atwood, to better understand literature in the age of globalization. The global novel, he finds, is not …
We Want to Believe
How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters
Av Adam Kirsch
Häftad, 2026
160 kr
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Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them?For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes, late-night radio. Then, abruptly, the posture changed. The Pentagon released videos it could not …
