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  • Framing the Interpreter

    Towards a visual perspective

    Edited by Anxo Fernandez-Ocampo, Michaela Wolf ...
    Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters.This book analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos from several historical periods of conflict, associated with different photographic technologies and habits of image consumption: the colonial period, ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Interpreting in Nazi Concentration Camps

    Edited by Professor Michaela Wolf ...
    Series series Literatures, Cultures, Translation
    This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language used by the camp inmates, investigation into the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

    by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan ...
    For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Lies, Passions & Illusions

    The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

    by François Furet ...
    Translated by Deborah Furet ...
    A critical history of 20th century political movement by the Hannah Arendt Prize-winning author of Interpreting the French Revolution.Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, François Furet was hailed as "one of the most influential men in contemporary France" by the New York Review of Books. In Lies, Passions, and Illusions, Furet's presents a cohesive, late ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Left-Wing Melancholia

    Marxism, History, and Memory

    by Enzo Traverso ...
    Series Book 17 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Theaters of Justice

    Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

    by Yasco Horsman ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Adorno

    A Biography

    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.This authoritative biography ranges across the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • After the Deluge

    New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

    by François Dosse, Michael Behrent, David Berry, Lucia Bonfreschi, Warren Breckman, Michael Scott Christofferson, Stuart Elden, William Gallois, Ron Haas, Ethan Kleinberg, Samuel Moyn, Philippe Poirrier, Christophe Premat, Alan D. Schrift ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Inside Concentration Camps

    Social Life at the Extremes

    by Maja Suderland ...
    Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within the camps?In this highly original book Maja Suderland takes the reader inside the concentration camps and examines the everyday ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

    The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy

    Edited by Agatha Schwartz ...
    At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Guy Debord

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focus, to the contrary, is on ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus