Michael Hofmann: 25 books

A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann—his first in twenty years Michael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann’s status—he is the author of “one of the definitive bodies of work of the...

An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticism Michael Hofmann—poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond—has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of Where Have You Been?, he offers a hand to guide us and...

"Noch einmal lasst des Dichters Phantasie / Die düstre Zeit an euch vorüberführen …" Friedrich Schillers monumentales Versdrama führt hinein in die Wirren des Dreißigjährigen Krieges: Es zeigt die letzten drei Lebenstage Wallensteins, des erfolgreichen Oberbefehlshabers der kaiserlichen...

"Noch einmal lasst des Dichters Phantasie / Die düstre Zeit an euch vorüberführen …" Friedrich Schillers monumentales Versdrama führt hinein in die Wirren des Dreißigjährigen Krieges: Es zeigt die letzten drei Lebenstage Wallensteins, des erfolgreichen Oberbefehlshabers der kaiserlichen...

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Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany...

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 62 (UK system), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: During his speech at the Security Conference in Munich in February this year, the Russian Defence Minister...

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 10 (out of 10), Vilnius University, course: Politics and Governments in Lithuania, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The main objective of this paper is to examine...

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 72 (UK system), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: On May 1, 2004, ten new countriesi joined the European Union (EU). Besides the Mediterranean countries of Cyprus...

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 71 (UK system), University of Kent, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper argues that Wendt's approach, by taking states' domestic identities as given, is not...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 69 (upper second), University of Kent, 38 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In May 2004, seven formerly Soviet satellite countries joined the European Union (EU). In 2007,...

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 65 (UK system), University of Kent, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The end of the cold war in 1989 and 1990 appeared without warning. The upheavals that followed the fall of...

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 9 (out of 10), Vilnius University, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Political Parties play a crucial role in modern democracies as they form and articulate the political...

Habermas’s Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas’s social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller,...