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  • 1978

    Baseball and America in the Disco Era

    by David Krell ...
    Americans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers’ deaths; the public’s trust in politicians plummeted amid the Watergate scandal. As deadly blizzards ripped through the Midwest and Northeast in early 1978 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, Americans turned to baseball for the welcome ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Fenway Effect

    A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox

    by David Krell ...
    To be a part of Red Sox Nation is to be a hopeful romantic who neither betrays loyalty nor surrenders hope in the direst of circumstances. From Bangor to Back Bay, New Englanders endure in baseball matters. And life. The team’s history has intersected with the history of Boston and well beyond it, through the Curse of the Bambino, the military service of Ted Williams during World War II, and the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Derrida and Our Animal Others

    Derrida's Final Seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign"

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty—the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account of these seminars, placing them in the context of Derrida's late work and his critique of Heidegger. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daimon Life

    Heidegger and Life-Philosophy

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    "Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John LlewelynDisclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger's philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do You Believe in Magic?

    Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966

    by David Krell ...
    A unique and dynamic look at a pivotal year in American history and culture.There were seismic shifts taking place in 1966. The Supreme Court’s Miranda warnings decision. A World Series upset. Jacqueline Susann’s salacious best seller Valley of the Dolls. The television debut of Batman. Five successful missions in NASA’s Project Gemini. It was truly a momentous year in America.In Do You Believe in ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Daimon Life

    Heidegger and Life-Philosophy

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    "Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John LlewelynDisclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger's philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Three Encounters

    Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida and, through many letters and visits, come to know him well. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and Krell's warmly told personal recollections, Three Encounters presents an intimate and highly insightful look ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantoms of the Other

    Four Generations of Derrida's Geschlecht

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger's philosophy.During the 1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and published three incisive essays under the title Geschlecht, a German word for "generation" and "sexuality." These essays focused on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, taking up the rarely discussed issue of sexual ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • "Our Bums"

    The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture

    by David Krell ...
    Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the team's history.Personal stories are included from the fans who embraced Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • 1962

    Baseball and America in the Time of JFK

    by David Krell ...
    In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees, led by Mickey Mantle, won their twentieth title, beating the San Francisco Giants, led by Willie Mays, in their first appearance since ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    1978

    Baseball and America in the Disco Era

    by David Krell ...
    Narrated by David Krell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    From spring training to the World Series, 1978 gave baseball fans one of the sport's greatest seasons, full of legendary moments like the battle between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox for the American League East pennant, Gaylord Perry's three thousandth strikeout, Tom Seaver's only career no-hitter, Willie McCovey's five hundredth home run, and Pete Rose's marathon forty-four-game ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Derrida and Our Animal Others

    Derrida's Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty—the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account of these seminars, placing them in the context of Derrida's late work and his critique of Heidegger. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD