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  • Masculinity, Senses, Spirit

    by Claudia Bruns, Philippe C. Dubois, Robin Jarrell, Heikki Lempa, Robert D. Tobin, Randolph Trumbach, Craig D. Atwood, Paul Peucker ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the eighteenthcentury to the present. Ranging in scope from the bridal mysticism of eighteenthcentury German ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse

    by Ingo Cornils, Kamakshi P. Murti, Marco Schickling, Martin Swales, Olaf Berwald, Osman Durrani, Paul Bishop, Ralph W. B. Freedman, Stefan Hoeppner, Volker Michels0, Adrian Hsia1, Andreas Solbach2, C. Immo Schneider3, Frederick A. Lubich4, Godela Weiss-Sussex5, Hans-Joachim Hahn6, Jeff Vahlbusch7 ...
    Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
    Translated by J. Harvey Lomax ...
    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

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  • A History of German Literature

    From the Beginnings to the Present Day

    by Wolfgang Beutin, Klaus Ehlert, Wolfgang Emmerich, Helmut Hoffacker, Bernd Lutz, Volker Meid, Ralf Schnell, Peter Stein, Inge Stephan ...
    Translated by Claire Krojzl ...
    Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature.The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Medieval German Literature

    A Companion

    by Marion Gibbs, Sidney M. Johnson ...
    Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Educated Subject and the German Concept of Bildung

    A Comparative Cultural History

    by Rebekka Horlacher ...
    Series series Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
    German education plays a huge role in the development of education sciences and modern universities internationally. It is influenced by the educational concept of Bildung, which defines Germany ‘s theoretical and curricular ventures. This concept is famously untranslatable into other languages and is often misinterpreted as education, instruction, training, upbringing and other terms which don’t ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

    Edited by Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, David Warren Sabean, David M. Luebke ...
    Series Book 3 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of “conversion.” One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses ... Read more

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  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Meaning and Representation in History

    Edited by Jörn Rüsen ...
    Series Book 7 - Making Sense of History
    History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • An Introduction to German Pietism

    Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

    by Douglas H. Shantz ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown CollegeAn Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with ... Read more

    $33.99 USD