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  • Freudians and Feminists

    by Edith Kurzweil ...
    This book traces the intellectual history of the interaction between feminists and Freudian thought, charting the essence of psychoanalytic theories through the years to show specific notions were adapted, readapted, and discarded by successive generations of feminists. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Nazi Laws and Jewish Lives

    Letters from Vienna

    by Edith Kurzweil ...
    Although the period leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews has been well recorded, few sources convey the incremental effect of specific decrees aimed to dehumanize the Jews who were caught in Hitler's net, and how their everyday lives were transformed. These letters, written by Malvina Fischer to her daughter Mimi Weisz, have been translated and edited by her granddaughter Edith ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Freudians

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Edith Kurzweil ...
    Every country unconsciously creates the psychoanalysis it needs, says Edith Kurzweil. Freudians everywhere, even the most orthodox, are influenced by national traditions, interests, beliefs, and institutions. In this original and stimulating book, Kurzweil traces the ways in which psychoanalysis has evolved in Austria, England, France, Germany, and the United States.The author explains how ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Writers and Politics

    A Partisan Review Reader

    Edited by Edith Kurzweil, William Philips ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader, edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, captures the intersection of literature and politics as explored in Partisan Review since the late 1930s. This anthology reflects the journal’s commitment to non-doctrinaire, nonconformist, and open-minded perspectives, offering a rich collection of essays that examine the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Age of Structuralism

    From Levi-Strauss to Foucault

    Edited by Edith Kurzweil ...
    Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of objective realities. The Age of Structuralism examines the work of seven writers who either expanded upon or reacted against Levi-Strauss.In a panoramic overview of the origins of deconstructionism and ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Full Circle

    A Memoir

    Edited by Edith Kurzweil ...
    This is a personal history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Edith Kurzweil, author, teacher, editor of Partisan Review, and a recent recipient of the National Medal of Humanities. The book opens with Kurzweil early adolescence in Vienna during the Nazi takeover. It ends with the author finding herself in the new century. In between, she kept moving on and interrogating the ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Cultural Analysis

    The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas

    by Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert J. Bergesen, Edith Kurzweil ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault
    First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

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    Human, Animal, Violence

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Nazi Officer's Wife

    How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

    by Susan Dworkin, Edith Hahn Beer ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerIn this gripping WWII historical nonfiction, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground, a true story of survival by hiding in plain sight. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Children of Nazis

    The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

    by Tania Crasnianski ...
    Translated by Molly Grogan ...
    The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of CriminalsIn 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Höss, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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