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  • Views of Violence

    Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

    Edited by Jörg Echternkamp, Stephan Jaeger ...
    Series Book 19 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Fighting Words and Images

    Representing War Across the Disciplines

    Edited by Elena V. Baraban, Adam Muller, Stephan Jaeger ...
    Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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  • Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    by Carl R. Trueman ...
    How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lovers of Philosophy

    How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought

    by Warren Ward ...
    They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love?Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their ideas. In these pages, the reader learns about the significance of Kant's infatuation, Hegel's premarital liaisons, Nietzsche's heartbreak, Heidegger's hypocrisy, Sartre's promiscuous polyamory, ... Read more

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  • Guilt About The Past

    by Bernhard Schlink ...
    Guilt about the Past explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not only to individual perpetrators. It considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, and the role of law in this process. Based on the Weidenfeld Lectures author Bernhard Schlink delivered at Oxford University, Guilt about the Past ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resentment's Virtue

    Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

    by Thomas Brudholm ...
    Series series Politics History & Social Chan
    Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a pathology. Resentment is viewed as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Of Fear and Strangers

    A History of Xenophobia

    by George Makari ...
    **Winner of the International Psychoanalytical Association's 2023 Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice AwardA Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia—and what they mean for us today.**By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Sediments of Time

    On Possible Histories

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Ruins of Modernity

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • History, Literature, Critical Theory

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Hitler: Philosopher King

    by Mark Morris ...
    Hitler and the NSDAP (Nazi party) are a social and historical phenomenon, Hitler's Aspergic personality and postmodern philosophy combined to enable both his personal political success and then the postmodern power state that he constructed. By refracting the issues through leadership, psychiatric, sociological and philosophical disciplinary prisms, the hypothesis in this book proposes a synergy ... Read more

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  • On Betrayal

    by Avishai Margalit ...
    "Seamlessly combines analytic rigor with personal memoir . . . its arguments are drawn from political history . . . Biblical commentary . . . novels and biographies." (Amélie Rorty, Tufts University)Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal ... Read more

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