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A Pact with Vichy

Emanuel Rota

• Paperback | Engels | World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
• Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist oppon... Lees meer

Italian Folk

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in Italian America
• Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general percept... Lees meer

Heidegger and Aquinas

John D Caputo

• Hardcover | Engels
• Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the... Lees meer

Force

Christoph Menke

• Paperback | Engels
• The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumga... Lees meer

The Legends of the Saints

Hippolyte Delehaye

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Legends of the saint-facts about the saints. How often these two are thought to be the same thing, and everything which we read in saints' biograp... Lees meer

Sovereignties in Question

Jacques Derrida

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• This book brings together five powerful encounters. Themes central to all of Derrida's writings thread the intense confrontation between the most famo... Lees meer

Practicing the City

Nina Levine

• Hardcover | Engels
• In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporar... Lees meer

Beyond Hostile Islands

Daniel McKay

• Paperback | Engels | World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
• Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pa... Lees meer

From a Nickel to a Token

Andrew J Sparberg

• Paperback | Engels
• Streetcars "are as dead as sailing ships," said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue's streetcars yielded to bus... Lees meer

A Short and Remarkable History of New York City

Jane Mushabac, Angela Wigan

• Paperback | Engels
• NOW in its fifth Printing which includes the events of September 11, 2001. Selected by the American Association of University Presses as one of "The B... Lees meer

The Animal That Therefore I Am

Jacques Derrida

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conferenc... Lees meer

God, Justice, Love, Beauty

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Hardcover | Engels
• The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the... Lees meer

When Giants Ruled

Hy B Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Communications and Media Studies
• When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more mon... Lees meer

To Make the Hands Impure

Adam Zachary Newton

• Paperback | Engels
• How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our... Lees meer

Six Essays on Erasmus

John C Olin

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume comprises four previously published Erasmian studies and two new works. All are attempts at understanding Erasmus' aims, his influence, an... Lees meer

Educational Reconstruction

Hilary N Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Reconstructing America
• "Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, bla... Lees meer

Inside Out

Oleg D Davydov

• Hardcover | Engels
• Oleg Davydov's Inside Out examines Russia's foreign economic relations from 1992 to 1997, a period of drastic change and transformation. During these ... Lees meer

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

John Martis

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe... Lees meer

Mimetic Reflections

William Schweiker

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to "imitative" modes of thought found in much ... Lees meer

A Philosophy of Hope

Bernard Schumacher

• Hardcover | Engels | Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology | nr. 5
• Josef Pieper was one of this century's most influential thinkers. A leading Catholic philosopher, he won a wide audience through such books as The Fou... Lees meer

An American Heroine in the French Resistance

• Paperback | Engels | World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
• This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Ph... Lees meer

The Pleasures of Memory

Sarah Winter

• Hardcover | Engels
• What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering liter... Lees meer

Renaissance Posthumanism

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of ""critical posthumanisms"" in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthu... Lees meer

Deserter Country

Robert M Sandow

• Hardcover | Engels | North's Civil War
• During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less... Lees meer