Kraus: 216 books
The Kraus Project
Essays by Karl Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakening
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked...
Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità
Tragedia in cinque atti con preludio ed epilogo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2019
«Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità» stanno al centro dell’opera di Karl Kraus, come il Minotauro nel labirinto. Tutti i suoi saggi, i suoi aforismi, i suoi pamphlets, le sue liriche convergono verso questo testo di teatro irrappresentabile, che accoglie in sé tutti i generi e gli stili letterari,...
The Last Days of Mankind
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods...
Das Kraus-Projekt
Aufsätze von Karl Kraus
Language: German
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Jonathan Franzen hat schon oft gezeigt, wie viel ihm deutsche Sprache und Literatur bedeuten. Jetzt hat er sich mit einem weiteren Helden seiner Deutsch-Lektüren befasst, dem Sprach- und Kulturkritiker Karl Kraus (1874-1936), einem der bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftsteller des beginnenden...
by Karl Kraus
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Fra i massimi scrittori di questo secolo Karl Kraus è finora il meno noto, fuori dai paesi germanici, soprattutto per l’enorme difficoltà che pone la lingua di ogni sua opera. Il volume che qui si presenta contiene in traduzione, per la prima volta al mondo, un’ampia scelta da suoi testi fondamentali....
Auch Zwerge werfen lange Schatten
Sprüche und Widersprüche
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Heute dienen die Schriften von Karl Kraus vor allem als dekoratives Element in den Regalen der letzten bildungsbürgerlichen Privatbibliotheken. Dabei ist seine brachiale Kulturkritik – und davon nicht zu trennen - seine virtuose Sprachvivisektion wichtiger denn je. Kraus zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie ein...
Weltgericht
Satiren und Polemiken
Language: German
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Ich habe alles reiflich erwogen.« Mit diesem Satz beginnt die Kriegserklärung Österreich-Ungarns an Serbien - jener Text, den Karl Kraus einmal als das einzige Gedicht bezeichnet hat, das in diesem Krieg geschrieben worden sei. Vorausgegangen waren ihm das Attentat auf den österreichischen Thronfolger...
A New Type of Womanhood
Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman’s rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society’s very conception of “womanhood” in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Kraus demonstrates that...
by Karl Kraus
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Gli scritti compresi in questa raccolta apparvero sulla «Fackel», rivista che Karl Kraus aveva fondato nel 1899. Tra essi spicca il celebre Elogio della vita a rovescio in cui Kraus ci presenta non solo le miserie e gli orrori della società viennese vista attraverso le lenti deformanti del capovolgimento...
Nicht einmal bedingt abwehrbereit
Die Bundeswehr zwischen Elitetruppe und Reformruine
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Die Bundeswehr pfeift aus dem letzten Loch, personell stark ausgedünnt, die Gerätschaften verkommen. Ausgehend von dem desaströsen Status quo der Bundeswehr werfen Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Josef Kraus und Oberst a. D. Richard Drexl einen Blick auf ihre gut sechzigjährige Geschichte und legen dar,...
by Daniel Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
“Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely.”—Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer
From New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck,...
George Szell's Reign
Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra’s towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell’s powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image.Marcia Hansen Kraus’s participation in Cleveland’s...
Die letzten Tage der Menschheit
Tragödie in 5 Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ist eine "Tragödie in 5 Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog" von Karl Kraus. Sie ist in den Jahren 1915-1922 als Reaktion auf den Ersten Weltkrieg entstanden. In über 200 nur lose zusammenhängenden Szenen, die auf wahren Quellen beruhen, wird die Unmenschlichkeit...
Backache, Stress, and Tension
Understanding Why You Have Back Pain and Simple Exercises to Prevent and Treat It
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Today’s busy world provides too much stress and not enough time for exercise. Instead of walking, running, and doing physical chores, we sit for hours at a desk, use machines to do work for us, and drive a car for even the shortest trips. As a result, more than sixty-five million Americans experience...