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  • Understanding Franz Kafka

    by Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
    An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work.Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka's eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Marcel Proust

    by Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
    An overview of Proust's development as a writer and an in-depth study of his major novel, In Search of Lost TimeUnderstanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revels in Madness

    Insanity in Medicine and Literature

    by Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Franz Kafka

    The Necessity of Form

    by Stanley Corngold ...
    In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

    by Adam Watt ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

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  • Men in Dark Times

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity . . . each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works . . . of ten exemplary men and women" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)."Dark times" is Brecht's phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it suggest that those she writes about are not "mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist", but, rather, that the routine repetitive horrors of the twentieth century form the ... Read more

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  • Against Interpretation

    And Other Essays

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nietzsche

    Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

    by Walter A. Kaufmann ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of ... Read more

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  • Sartre: Romantic Rationalist. Illustrated

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    In Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, acclaimed novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch presents a clear and insightful introduction to the complex thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century existentialism. This illustrated volume offers both a critique and a sympathetic exploration of Sartre’s philosophical and literary work. Murdoch examines Sartre’s central ideas, ... Read more

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