Martin Jay: 25 books
Downcast Eyes
The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity...
Le virtù della menzogna
Politica e arte dell'inganno
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2014
«Washington non sapeva dire le bugie, Nixon non sapeva dire la verità, e Reagan non sapeva la differenza». La vecchia facezia mette allo scoperto la tensione agonistica tra verità e menzogna che attraversa la cultura politica, non solo americana. Dalla storiella edificante illustrata in copertina...
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1996
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...
by Martin Jay
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and virtual reality, religious violence, the art world, and the Unicorn Killer, among a wide range of other topics.
by James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Clarifies many aspects of the previously obscured or merely anecdotal relation between criticism and Jewishness in the twentieth century and beyond.
by Martin Jay
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.
Force Fields
Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Candy in the Dumpster
New and Used Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The debut Dark Arts Books release compiles 12 "new and used" horror stories by four darkly humorous and horrifically dark Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson and Martin Mundt.
CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER includes Jay Bonansinga's short story "Stash,"...
The Bible, The Basketball, and The Briefcase
How An Arkansas Lawyer Also Became An Inner City Pastor
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
As a promising new lawyer, Jay Martin would have seem like a guy out of place in the projects of Little Rock, Arkansas, shooting hoops, befriending fatherless kids, and introducing them to Jesus. Since then, Jay has enjoyed a prominent career in law and politics. Yet, despite his vocational demands,...
Live All You Can
Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport...
The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
25 Modern and Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's greatest authors. Included are:
THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela...
The Education of John Dewey
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American...
Righteous Indignation
A Jewish Call for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world?
In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...
by Jay P. Goldsmith, MD, Edward Karotkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Extensively updated andfeaturing a new editorial team, the 6th Edition of Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate, by Drs. Jay P. Goldsmith, Edward Karotkin, Gautham Suresh, and Martin Keszler, continues to be a must-have reference for the entire NICU. Still the only fully comprehensive guide in this...
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