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  • The Implicated Subject

    Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "A pathbreaking meditation . . . shifts the discussion . . . from . . . notions of guilt and innocence to the complexities of responsibility and accountability." —Amir Eshel, Stanford UniversityWhen it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traumatic Realism

    The Demands of Holocaust Representation

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility of comprehending this event, others attempt representations in forms as different as the nonfiction novel (and Hollywood blockbuster) Schindler’s List, the documentary Shoah, and the comic book Maus. This problem is at the center of Michael Rothberg’s book, a focused account of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Implicated Subject

    Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Multidirectional Memory

    Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Remembering the Holocaust

    A Debate

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following up with challenging and equally provocative responses to it, this book offers a sweeping ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • Trauma

    A Social Theory

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Lenin Reloaded

    Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii

    Edited by Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series Book 7 - [sic] Series
    Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world’s leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume’s editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx’s thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. They contend that a focus on Lenin is urgently needed now, when global capitalism ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Intimate Strangers

    Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse

    by Andreea Ritivoi ...
    Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture

    Edited by Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, Todd Presner ...
    Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocaust’s privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question.Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Violence

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Translating Milan Kundera

    by Michelle WOODS ...

    $24.99 USD

  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

    $7.99 USD