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  • Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1

    Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships

    Edited by Hans Maier ...
    Series series Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
    We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate. This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume III

    Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships - Theory & History of Interpretations

    Edited by Hans Maier ...
    Series series Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
    Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions completes the set. It provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions, from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo Strauss and Simone Weill. Edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier, it represents a major study, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II

    Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships

    Edited by Hans Maier, Michael Schäfer ...
    Series series Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
    Available for the first time in English language translation, this is the long-awaited second volume of the three part set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions, edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier. This represents a major study, with contributions from leading scholars of political extremism, sociology and modern history, the book shows how new models for understanding political ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The German Conception of History

    The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiographyThis is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and ... Read more

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  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Boyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... Read more

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  • Building a National Literature

    The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

    by Peter Uwe Hohendahl ...
    Translated by Renate Baron Franciscono ...
    Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a ... Read more

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  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
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  • Dreamland of Humanists

    Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

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    Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

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  • The Law of Blood

    Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
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  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
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    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

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