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  • The Cultural Gradient

    The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991

    by Lawrence Dickey, Andrzej Walicki Catherine Evtuhov, Natalia Pirumova, Terence Emmons, Bernice Rosenthal, Charles Ruud, Elzbieta Kaczynska, Glennys Young, Norman Pereira, Jack Matlock, Alain Touraine, Adam Michnik, Jacques Le Goff, Hugh McLean, Nicholas Riasanovsky ...
    Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into "East" and "West"?This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the ideas of Martin Malia, the contributors take a flexible view of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Idea of Decline in Western History

    by Arthur Herman ...
    Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo ...
    An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emancipation

    How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

    by Michael Goldfarb ...
    The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Karl Marx

    Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Terrell Carver ...
    Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Lenin 2017

    Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

    by Slavoj Zizek, V. I. Lenin ...
    One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayV. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original texts, Slavoj iek argues that his true greatness can be better grasped in the last two years of his political ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    by Tony Judt ...
    A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seduction of Culture in German History

    by Wolf Lepenies ...
    During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lies, Passions & Illusions

    The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

    by François Furet ...
    Translated by Deborah Furet ...
    A critical history of 20th century political movement by the Hannah Arendt Prize-winning author of Interpreting the French Revolution.Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, François Furet was hailed as "one of the most influential men in contemporary France" by the New York Review of Books. In Lies, Passions, and Illusions, Furet's presents a cohesive, late ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Triumph of Hate

    The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement

    Edited by Christopher Vasillopulos ...
    The Triumph of Hate explains the religious, philosophical, sociopolitical, and historical roots of the rise of Hitler and his movement. Beginning with Paul’s rejection of traditional Judaism, the book accounts for the animosity and estrangement that has shaped the tragic history of Christians and Jews in Europe. Beginning with the investiture contest, Vasillopulos explains the estrangement of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bakunin

    A Biography

    by Mark Leier ...
    " Bakunin not only reassesses this fascinating and important character but also provides the biography of the forgotten ideology of anarchism itself."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarThe passion for destruction is a creative passion," wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD