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Thinking in Public
Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence these linked ideas provoked in the generation of European Jewish …
Identity
The Necessity of a Modern Idea
Häftad, 2019
512 kr
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Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European …
Between Cultures
Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives
Inbunden, 2015
735 kr
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Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born, devoted themselves to exploring a second …
Thinking in Public
Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
Inbunden, 2016
1127 kr
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Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence these linked ideas provoked in the generation of European Jewish …
Christian Human Rights
Av Samuel Moyn
Inbunden, 2015
346 kr
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In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman …
Homo Cinematicus
Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2017
911 kr
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was …
Labor of the Mind
Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures
Inbunden, 2017
968 kr
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How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish …
Suffering Scholars
Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Av Anne C. Vila
Inbunden, 2018
822 kr
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As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until …
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions
Inbunden, 2018
1194 kr
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Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and …
History After Hitler
A Transatlantic Enterprise
Inbunden, 2018
880 kr
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The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history. As West Germany's formerly deeply nationalist academic establishment began to reconcile itself with postwar liberalism, American …
Spatial Reformation
Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God
Inbunden, 2019
1113 kr
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In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping history of the way Europeans conceived of three-dimensional space, including the relationship between Earth and the heavens, between 1350 and 1850. He argues that this "spatial reformation" provoked a reorganization of knowledge in the …
Secularism and Hermeneutics
Av Yael Almog
Inbunden, 2019
798 kr
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In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible. However, this assumption concealed a problem-there was no coherent "we" who read the Bible in the same way. In Secularism and …
Race, Nation, History
Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era
Inbunden, 2019
938 kr
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In Race, Nation, History, Oded Y. Steinberg examines the way a series of nineteenth-century scholars in England and Germany first constructed and then questioned the periodization of history into ancient, medieval, and modern eras, shaping the way we continue to think about the past and present of …
Moment of Rupture
Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought
Inbunden, 2019
742 kr
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An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, kairos, the time in which exceptional, unrepeatable events occurred, was opposed to chronos, …
Élie Halévy
Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny
Inbunden, 2020
1327 kr
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An intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer of the "era of tyrannies"Élie HalÉvy (1870-1937) was one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic. In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how HalÉvy, best …
Anthropological Turn
French Political Thought After 1968
Inbunden, 2020
903 kr
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A close look at post-1968 French thinkers RÉgis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de BenoistIn The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces the development of what he calls a tradition of "political anthropology" in France over the course of the 1970s. After the social revolution …
Assembling the Local
Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India
Inbunden, 2021
911 kr
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In 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understood as an …
Survival
A Theological-Political Genealogy
Inbunden, 2021
855 kr
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For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation.In Survival, Stern asks what texts, …
Belief in Intuition
Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler
Inbunden, 2021
855 kr
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Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays a key role in orienting their thinking and action within the world. As author Adriana Alfaro Altamirano notes, …
Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Inbunden, 2021
798 kr
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Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarkably, despite the fact that it was perhaps the most pressing issue of her era, this theme in her work has rarely been explored. In Violence and Power in …
Maternalists
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Inbunden, 2021
524 kr
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The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare …
Color of Equality
Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought
Inbunden, 2021
764 kr
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The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical …
Before the Religious Right
Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States
Inbunden, 2022
798 kr
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When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals. But for much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped American politics. Leaders of this religious community wielded their influence to fight for social …
Between Cultures
Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives
E-bok, 2015
913 kr
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Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born, devoted themselves to exploring a second …
Thinking in Public
Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
E-bok, 2015
489 kr
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Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence these linked ideas provoked in the generation of European Jewish …
Christian Human Rights
Av Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2015
415 kr
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In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman …
Homo Cinematicus
Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
E-bok, 2017
1125 kr
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was …
Labor of the Mind
Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures
E-bok, 2017
1192 kr
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How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish …
Suffering Scholars
Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Av Anne C. Vila
E-bok, 2018
957 kr
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As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until …
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions
E-bok, 2018
1419 kr
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Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and …
