Book of the Sphinx

Willis Goth Regier

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to ... Lees meer

Budapest Diary

Susan Rubin Suleiman

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her r... Lees meer

Crack Wars

Avital Ronell

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 11
• Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine,... Lees meer

The Imaginary Jew

Alain Finkielkraut

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions... Lees meer

A Life in Letters

Max Horkheimer

• Hardcover | Texts and Contexts
• One of the central figures in modern thought, Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was the director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Fra... Lees meer

Atlas of a Tropical Germany

Zafer Senocak

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany?" Gathered here for the first time in Englis... Lees meer

Finitude's Score

Avital Ronell

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerri... Lees meer

The Inveterate Dreamer

Ilan Stavans

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue--from German and Russian t... Lees meer

The Jews and Germany

Enzo Traverso

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 14
• The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the be... Lees meer

Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Heidi Thomann Tewarson

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. She is known for the salon she initiated in Berlin, which be... Lees meer

Artistry in Native American Myths

Karl Kroeber

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, repres... Lees meer

The Exquisite Corpse

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group--the foremost avant-gardists of their time--participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded... Lees meer

Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question

Jonathan Judaken

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question examines the image of "the Jew" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the inte... Lees meer

Impossible Missions?

Nina Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This study of the German presence in Africa in the modern period exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and "g... Lees meer

Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged prim... Lees meer

The House of Joshua

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places where they have lived. She lovingly recalls her parent... Lees meer

Man of Ashes

Salomon Isacovici, Juan Manuel Rodriguez

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A poignant, groundbreaking memoir that links the Holocaust and its aftermath to the safe haven that opened for camp survivors in Latin America at mid... Lees meer

Opera

Michael Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century opera... Lees meer

Sojourners

John Borneman, Jeffrey M Peck

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of [German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience.... Lees meer

Inscribing the Other

Sander L Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 1
• Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who h... Lees meer

Germany's Colonial Pasts

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies... Lees meer

The Future of a Negation

Alain Finkielkraut

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust--and on Holocaust denial--from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and infl... Lees meer

Between Redemption and Doom

Noah Isenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in liter... Lees meer

The Mirror and the Word

Eric B Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Offers an indirect method for dealing with powerful and conservative voices in Trakl criticism, a method that unburdens the debate of its weighty pomp... Lees meer