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| 1. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 2. |  | Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: In the shadow of catastrophe: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment Author: Rabinbach, Anson Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | German Studies | Social and Political Thought | Philosophy Publisher's Description: These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.Analyzing the work of Benjamin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Prague territories: national conflict and cultural innovation in Franz Kafka's fin de siècle Author: Spector, Scott 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History of Food | European History | Jewish Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourish . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The genesis of Heidegger's Being and time Author: Kisiel, Theodore J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies Publisher's Description: This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theod . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art | History | Jewish Studies | German Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1918 the city of Berlin evolved into a commercial and industrial hub that also became an international center for radical new ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jews were key leaders in developing this unique cosmopolitan culture. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The life of Judaism Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | Judaism Publisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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 |
| 10. |  | Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music | Film Publisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | Social Theory Publisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identity Author: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Social and Political Thought | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German Studies Publisher'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 |
| 17. |  | Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderland Author: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | German Studies | Geography | European Studies | Social Problems Publisher'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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Heritage and hellenism: the reinvention of Jewish tradition Author: Gruen, Erich S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Judaism | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German culture Author: Rose, Paul Lawrence Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | European Studies | Science | Technology and Society | Physics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertake . . . [more] Similar Items |