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  • Concepts of Culture

    New Directions in Conceptual History

    Edited by Mattias Pirholt, Michael Lipkin ...
    Series Book 11 - European Conceptual History
    Concepts of Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history, broadening the scope of Reinhart Koselleck’s original undertaking through a series of experimental case studies in “applied conceptual history.” Drawing on contributors from art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, and history, the book o  ers theoretically grounded applications of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • An Ordinary Youth

    by Walter Kempowski ...
    Translated by Michael Lipkin ...
    A provocative novel about growing up in Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a child witnessing the spread of intolerance and political unrest in his town.An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother’s jazz records, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    An Ordinary Youth

    by Walter Kempowski ...
    Narrated by Ryan Burke ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    A provocative novel about growing up in Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a child witnessing the spread of intolerance and political unrest in his town.An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The German Conception of History

    The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action.The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Ideology and Utopia

    by Karl Mannheim ...
    Translated by Louis Wirth ...
    This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action.Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history ... Read more

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  • Building a National Literature

    The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

    by Peter Uwe Hohendahl ...
    Translated by Renate Baron Franciscono ...
    Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a ... Read more

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  • Permanent Crisis

    The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

    by Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon ...
    Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world.The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heidegger in Ruins

    Between Philosophy and Ideology

    by Richard Wolin ...
    What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher?Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked hard to reshape the university in accordance with ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

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  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
    Translated by J. Harvey Lomax ...
    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • Hegel

    The Philosopher of Freedom

    by Klaus Vieweg ...
    Translated by Sophia Kottman ...
    A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked from the credo: To philosophize is to learn to live freely. While he was slow and cautious in the development of his philosophy, his intellectual ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

    by Gerhard Richter ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD