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21. | | Title: Nietzsche, genealogy, morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of moralsAuthor: Schacht, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | European History | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an il . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German StudiesPublisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Profane illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of surrealist revolutionAuthor: Cohen, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: German Studies | Philosophy | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Benja . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Ger . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophyAuthor: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Walter Benjamin's other history: of stones, animals, human beings, and angelsAuthor: Hanssen, Beatrice Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy | Rhetoric | German Studies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: War stories: the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of GermanyAuthor: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selecti . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar GermanyAuthor: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | German Studies | Women's Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questionsAuthor: Schmidt, James Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | German StudiesPublisher's Description: This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderlandAuthor: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | German Studies | Geography | European Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar cultureAuthor: Ankum, Katharina von Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: German Studies | Women's Studies | European Literature | Film | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide r . . . [more]Similar Items |
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