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  • Mobile Modernity

    Germans, Jews, Trains

    by Todd Presner ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews.Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture

    Edited by Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, Todd Presner ...
    Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocaust’s privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question.Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Urban Humanities

    New Practices for Reimagining the City

    by Dana Cuff, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Todd Presner, Maite Zubiaurre, Jonathan Jae-An Crisman ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture

    Edited by Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, Todd Presner ...
    Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocaust’s privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question.Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Critical Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and ... Read more

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  • The Dialectical Imagination

    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

    by Martin Jay ...
    Series Book 10 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Writing History, Writing Trauma

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Series series Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
    An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies.Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies—notably Holocaust testimonies—assume in thought and in ... Read more

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  • Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

    by Louis Althusser ...
    No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of ... Read more

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  • Multidirectional Memory

    Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of ... Read more

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  • Hannah Arendt

    by Simon Swift ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day.In the face of 9/11 and the 'war on terror', Arendt's work on the politics of freedom and the rights of man in a ... Read more

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  • Simone de Beauvoir - A Beginner's Guide

    by Alison Holland ...
    Series series BGKF
    Simone de Beauvoir was among the 20th century's most influential thinkers. She was a philosopher at the forefront of existentialism, a pioneering thinker on women and feminism in ""The Second Sex"", the writer of prize-winning fiction, an autobiographical writer and a committed political activist. Introducing her life and work in a straightforward, jargon-free way, this guide offers readings of ... Read more

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