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  • Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine

    Three Plays and Essays on WWII and Its Aftermath

    by Inez Hedges ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Franz Kafka

    Subversive Dreamer

    by Michael Lowy ...
    Translated by Inez Hedges ...
    Series series Michigan Studies In Comparative Jewish Cultures
    Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious thinking, and anti-authoritarian or anarchist protest against the rising power of bureaucratic modernity. The book proceeds chronologically, starting with biographical facts often neglected or denied ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A breathtakingly beautiful memoir by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an astonishing addition to the library of literature on the HolocaustMarceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested along with her father in the Vichy-ruled part of France. Her mother and siblings managed to escape arrest. On their arrival at the camps, the two were separated--her father sent to Auschwitz, ... Read more

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  • When Paris Went Dark

    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

    by Ronald C. Rosbottom ...
    The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II." When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 resonated eerily with 2017 America. . . . This book is a compelling, sobering warning about the dangers of complacency in the face of intolerance."―Celeste Ng, Wall Street JournalOn June fourteen, 1940, ... ... Read more

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  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

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  • Time for Outrage

    Indignez-vous!

    by Stéphane Hessel ...
    This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel -- Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, and former UN speechwriter ... Read more

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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

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  • Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview

    And Other Conversations

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of "the banality of evil" which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an émigré.Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is ... Read more

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  • Public Enemies

    Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

    by Michel Houellebecq, Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    Translated by Miriam Rachel Frendo, Frank Wynne ...
    The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling ... Read more

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  • Totalitarianism

    Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. ... Read more

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  • Explaining Hitler

    The Search for the Origins of His Evil, updated edition

    by Ron Rosenbaum ...
    In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a ... Read more

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  • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954

    Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and ... Read more

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