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  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Time, History, and Literature

    Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

    by Erich Auerbach ...
    Translated by Jane O. Newman ...
    Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Morning and Evening: Daily Bible Readings for Every Day of the Year

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  • The Luminaries

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  • Radical Enlightenment

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    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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  • The Kingdom and the Glory

    For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    by Giorgio Agamben, Matteo Mandarini ...
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    by Umberto Eco ...
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    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
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