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The Nazi Dictatorship
Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review
Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Known for his clear and accessible style...
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond
Disturbing Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as...
Maya Angelou
Adventurous Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography and Architecture. Key Writings presents the...
The Lost Thread
The Democracy of Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar...
Mortal Thought
Hölderlin and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Mortal Thought seeks to illustrate the artistic and philosophical contexts for Hölderlin's poetic thought and to trace his profound impact upon subsequent philosophy, most notably Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, Heidegger and Post-structuralism. Beginning with the point of departure of Hölderlin...
Viktor Shklovsky
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His work...
Badiou and His Interlocutors
Lectures, Interviews and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation...
The Long Eighteenth Century
British Political and Social History 1688-1832
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades.
The book...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews.
The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism...
Spinoza
The Ethics of an Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has...
by Dr. James Gourley
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 must have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. By examining implicit...
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is the first guide to bring together scholars from a full...