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  • Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

    by Carolin Duttlinger ...
    Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka in Context

    Edited by Carolin Duttlinger ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the big questions of his ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka

    by Carolin Duttlinger ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Essence of Waldorf Education

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Margot Saar ...
    "It is a simple but essential principle: education aims at the future, at a time that we as educators do not yet know and cannot foresee. The challenges that will confront the children in the future are not those of the past--of our past, of our life story and our horizon. Times change, so do the realities of life, and in our times they change quickly and dramatically. Education aims at the future ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse

    by Ingo Cornils, Kamakshi P. Murti, Marco Schickling, Martin Swales, Olaf Berwald, Osman Durrani, Paul Bishop, Ralph W. B. Freedman, Stefan Hoeppner, Volker Michels0, Adrian Hsia1, Andreas Solbach2, C. Immo Schneider3, Frederick A. Lubich4, Godela Weiss-Sussex5, Hans-Joachim Hahn6, Jeff Vahlbusch7 ...
    Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

    by Gerhard Richter ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

  • Nietzsche's Mirror

    The World as Will to Power

    by Linda L. Williams ...
    Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works-will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms 'power,' 'will,' and 'will to power' as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains, called the Nachlass. The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Edited by Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... Read more

    $57.99 USD