Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Age of the Crisis of Man
Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif...
by Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent...
Terror in Chechnya
Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully acknowledged...
by Landon R.Y. Storrs
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal policymaking and their...
Jews, Germans, and Allies
Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived...
by Paul Reitter
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the...
by C. K. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes...
Lambent Traces
Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home,...
The Rites of Identity
The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Rites of Identity argues that Kenneth Burke was the most deciding influence on Ralph Ellison's writings, that Burke and Ellison are firmly situated within the American tradition of religious naturalism, and that this tradition--properly understood as religious--offers a highly useful means for...
Kazantzakis, Volume 2
Politics of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard....
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?
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by Hugo Drochon
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation...
The Seduction of Unreason
The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism’s infatuation with fascism has been extensive...
Freedom and Its Betrayal
Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom—views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment...