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  • The Marrano Specter

    Derrida and Hispanism

    by Jacques Lezra, Erin Graff Zivin, Alberto Moreiras, Gareth Williams, Brett Levinson, David Kelman, Geoffrey Bennington, Patrick Dove, Jaime Hanneken ...
    The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida’s work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms and problems he addresses take on a distinctive meaning: nationalism and cosmopolitanism; ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Literature and "Interregnum"

    Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America

    by Patrick Dove ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

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    by Leora Batnitzky ...
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  • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

    by William Goldbloom Bloch ...
    "The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's ... Read more

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  • What Would Nietzsche Do?

    How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems

    by Marcus Weeks ...
    What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leave the toilet seat up?With sections on Relationships, Self and Identity, How to Live, Art and ... Read more

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  • End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next

    by Dr. Dan Aviv ...
    End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next explores a pattern of crisis followed by a radical break and remake as a persistent phenomenon in Jewish history. The Jewish people have collectively braved many turning points over the past four millennia and, in each instance, did so by making a radical break from past forms of worship, notions of self and nation as well as sense of ... Read more

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  • My Heart Is At Ease

    by Gerta Solan ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In June 1942, when twelve-year-old Gerta is deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto – the Nazis' deceptive "model Jewish settlement" – her family helps her cope with the surrounding devastation. Later, alone in Auschwitz, Gerta is determined to survive the unbearable. Her intrepid spirit and keen observation guides her anew through post-war communism to freedom in Canada. ... Read more

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  • Coming to Our Senses

    Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture

    by Dierdra Reber ...
    Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture.Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, ... Read more

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  • The God Who Deconstructs Himself

    Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

    by Nick Mansfield ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each ... Read more

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  • Jews, Germans, and Allies

    Close Encounters in Occupied Germany

    by Atina Grossmann ...
    In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived through postwar reconstruction to trace the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

    Edited by John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural traits. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts explore the unity and diversity of the ... Read more

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