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  • The Glatstein Chronicles

    Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. ... Read more

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  • The Glatstein Chronicles

    Translated by Maier Deshell, Norbert Guterman ...
    Series series New Yiddish Library Series
    In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, writer Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two highly autobiographical novellas (translated as The Glatstein Chronicles) in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti ... Read more

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  • Prophets of Deceit

    A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

    How authoritarian and racist discourse functionsA classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends. The book details psychological deceits that idealogues or authoritarians commonly used. The techniques are grouped under the headings "Discontent", ... Read more

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  • Paracelsus

    Selected Writings

    by Paracelsus ...
    Translated by Norbert Guterman ...
    Series series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist. Little is known of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Theory of Categories

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and 1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's text. ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

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  • Everything Is Illuminated

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  • Four Archetypes

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    by C. G. Jung ...
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    One of Jung's most influential ideas has been his view, presented here, that primordial images, or archetypes, dwell deep within the unconscious of every human being. The essays in this volume gather together Jung's most important statements on the archetypes, beginning with the introduction of the concept in "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious." In separate essays, he elaborates and ... Read more

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  • The Spinoza Problem

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