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  • Health, Disease, and Illness

    Concepts in Medicine

    by Arthur L. Caplan, Galen, Maimonodes, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Samuel A. Cartwright, Georges Canguilhem0, Thomas S. Szaz1, George L. Engel2, Robert A. Aronowitz3, Christopher Boorse4, K. Danner Clouser5, Charles M. Culver6, Bernard Gert7, Roberto Mordacci8, Andrew Sobel9, R.E. Kendell0, Winston Chiong1, Alice Domurat Dreger2, Peter Conrad3, Norma C. Ware4, John T. E. Richardson5, Frances B. McCrea6, Martha Holstein7, Sander Gilman8, George C. Williams9, David Magnus0, Eric T. Juengst1, Peter J. Whitehouse2, Maxwell J. Mehlman3, Thomas H. Murray4, Paul R. Wolpe5 ...
    In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient

    by Sander Gilman ...
    This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Kafka after Kafka

    Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism

    by Iris Bruce, Sander Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold, Tali Latowicki, Vivian Liska, Mark H. Gelber, Alana Sobelman, Amir Engel, Caroline Jessen0, Ido Lewit1, Michael G. Levine2 ...
    The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

    by Cathy Gelbin, Sander Gilman ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Multiculturalism and the Jews

    by Sander Gilman ...
    In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?Gilman ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalisation

    Edited by Cathy Gelbin, Sander Gilman ...
    This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe. The volume explores the extent to which nationalized constructs of Jewish culture and identity still dominate Jewish self-expressions, as well as the discourses about them, in the rapidly globalizing world of the twenty-first century. Its contributions address the ways in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Jew's Body

    by Sander Gilman ...
    Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

    by Sonja Boos ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both ... Read more

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  • On Hitler's Mein Kampf

    The Poetics of National Socialism

    by Albrecht Koschorke ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series Book 2 - Untimely Meditations
    An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Theaters of Justice

    Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

    by Yasco Horsman ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna

    by Alison Rose ...
    Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between 1890 and 1914, little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu. Rescuing a lost legacy, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna explores the myriad ways in which Jewish women contributed to the development of Viennese culture and participated widely in politics and cultural spheres.Areas of exploration include ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger

    History of a Love

    by Antonia Grunenberg, Elizabeth von Witzke Birmingham ...
    Translated by Peg Birmingham, Kristina Lebedeva ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A biographical account of two major thinkers of the twentieth century, a relationship marked as much by estrangement and distance as reunion and friendship.How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the ... Read more

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