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  • Mobile Prussia

    Views Beyond the National

    by Ottmar Ette ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first black philosopher to matriculate at a Prussian university, to Frederick the Great's projection of the Prussian polity onto New Spain and the reign of Moctezuma, to the Dutch philosopher ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Futures Past

    On the Semantics of Historical Time

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    by Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • 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

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  • The Birth of the Archive

    A History of Knowledge

    by Markus Friedrich ...
    Translated by John Dillon ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The complex, demanding job ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Idea of Nationalism

    A Study in Its Origins and Background

    by Hans Kohn ...
    In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national ideal in the modern West. At its publication, Saturday Review called it an enduring and definitive treatise.... [Kohn] has written a book which is less a history of nationalism than it is a history of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Androids in the Enlightenment

    Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

    by Adelheid Voskuhl ...
    The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

    Edited by Paul Hamilton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Colonial Fantasies

    Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

    by Susanne Zantop, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Novel Translations

    The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

    by Bethany Wiggin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across ... Read more

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  • Apples and Oranges

    Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished ... Read more

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  • Ex Captivitate Salus

    Experiences, 1945 - 47

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Translated by Matthew Hannah ...
    When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach “automatic arrest.” Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945–6 and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in ... Read more

    $16.00 USD