Diaphanes: 24 books

Cover of Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the passage of time characterized by starts and stops and suspended states of waiting. Acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy brings out a temporal pattern, a subliminal convention of a certain fringe of modernism...
Cover of The Death of Socrates
by Jean Paul Mongin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however...
Cover of Hannah Arendt's Little Theater
by Marion Muller-Colard
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Plato & Co. introduces children—and curious grown-ups—to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Socrates to Descartes,...
Cover of Professor Kant's Incredible Day
by Jean Paul Mongin
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017

  At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,”...
Cover of Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros
by Françoise Armengaud
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however...
Cover of Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
by Elisabeth Bronfen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Matthew Weiner’s Emmy-winning series Mad Men has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner’s iconic characters seem as much a thing of the past as the workday...
Cover of Origins
by Reiner Schürmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

“Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it.” So writes Reiner Schürmann in Origins, a startlingly personal account of life as a young man from postwar Germany in the 1960s. Schürmann’s semi-autobiographical protagonist is incapable of escaping a past he never consciously experienced....
Cover of The Ghost of Karl Marx
by Ronan de Calan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however...
Cover of Die Farm
by Max Annas
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Irgendwo in Südafrika. Eine Farm wird belagert und beschossen. Schützen sind keine zu sehen. Sicher ist nur: Die Angreifer sind zum Äußersten entschlossen. In der Farm verbarrikadieren sich ganz unterschiedliche Menschen: Frauen, Männer und Kinder, Chefs und Angestellte, Schwarze und Weiße,...
Cover of Lost
by Dietmar Dath
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Wenn wir nicht zusammen leben können, sterben wir alleine. Ein Flugzeug stürzt auf einer Insel ab, die mehr Geschichte hat, als Vernünftige verstehen, und mehr Wissenschaft und Technik, als Mystiker glauben möchten. Immer tiefer in Vergangenheit, Zukunft und seitwärts von beiden weg führt die...
Cover of Mad Men
by Elisabeth Bronfen
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Mit die meistbejubelte und bekannteste unter den sogenannten Qualitätsserien, führt »Mad Men« (2007–2015) mitten ins Herz der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft und Kultur der 1960er Jahre. Visuelle Kultur, Musik, Mode, Familienbild, Geschlechterverhältnisse, gesellschaftliche und politische Situation...
Cover of The Sopranos
by Diedrich Diederichsen
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Kommt ein Mann zum Psychiater. Doch wird kein Witz daraus und auch keine erfolgreiche Therapie. Der verantwortungsvolle Familien­vater bringt seine Familie heute nicht mehr ohne Panikattacken und Gewaltverbrechen durchs Leben. Die Kinder sollen auf ein gutes College, die Ehefrau hat kulturelle Ambitionen. Die...
Cover of True Blood
by Cristina Nord
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

»It’s just kind of fun and silly«, sagt Alan Ball, der Creator, über die Serie »True Blood«. An Fantasy, Gore und Softcore sparen die sieben Staffeln nicht, zu ihrer Trashigkeit pflegen sie ein herzliches Verhältnis, und zugleich erzählen sie unter der Oberfläche von »popcorn television«...
Cover of Deadwood
by Tom Holert
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2018

»Deadwood«, neben »The Sopranos« und »The Wire« das dritte klassische HBO-Drama des vergangenen Jahrzehnts, ist eine vehemente Kritik der Gewalt, der sich die Wirklichkeit verdankt. Als Neo-Western maskiert, beruht die Serie auf historisch belegten Ereignissen in der Zeit nach dem amerikanischen...
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