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  • Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany

    Studies in Cultural, Social and Economic History

    by Michael Toch ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: literature, verbal attack and the language of mediated settlement of conflicts lead to a nuanced view of social hierarchy, in which the meek too have a say. The next group examines some major elements of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung

    Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement

    Edited by Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, Meike G. Werner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts, ... Read more

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  • Novel Translations

    The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

    by Bethany Wiggin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across ... Read more

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  • German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    by G Atkins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
    The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Johann Arndt

    A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism

    by Daniel van Voorhis ...
    This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.Arndt was regarded by his peers and successive generations as either the most significant Reformer since ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • György Lukács

    Notizen zu Georg Simmels Vorlesungen, 1906/07, und zur »Kunstsoziologie«, ca. 1909(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 005)

    by György Lukács ...
    Series Book 5 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been deposited there in 1917. Among the sixteen hundred letters and text fragments of the collection, known as the "Heidelberg Suitcase" among researchers, was the notebook that has been partially reproduced ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Christianity – The Untold Tragedy

    A Picture of Historiography as a Conspiracy of Ignorance

    by Dr. Roman Landau ...
    Is it allowed to argue that the legendary “freedom of teaching and research” seems to be purely theoretical and in fact one should better speak of “the dictatorship of the professorate”? Or is this a problem of intellectual nature? Is the ignorance of our elite in (journalism and) academia owed to their (innocent, God-given) mental immaturity?It took me only a few visites to the State Archive ... Read more

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  • 'Material Delight and the Joy of Living'

    Cultural Consumption in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany

    by Michael North ...
    Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a commercialization of culture as it became less courtly and more urban. The marketing of culture became separate from the production of culture. New cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage: the impresario, the publisher, the book seller, the art dealer, the auction house, and the reading society served as middlemen between producers and consumers of culture, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas

    An Annotated German-Language Reader

    Edited by Henk de Berg, Duncan Large ...
    German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Belle Necropolis

    Ghosts of Imperial Vienna

    by Katherine Arens ...
    Series Book 48 - Austrian Culture
    Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that «Habsburg nostalgia» is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Histories of Heinrich Schütz

    by Bettina Varwig ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik ... Read more

    $109.09 USD