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Consequences of Hermeneutics
The publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s magnum opus Truth and Method in 1960 marked the arrival of philosophical hermeneutics as a dominant force...
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Stalin’s Romeo Spy
Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901–75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet...
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Traveling on One Leg
Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and...
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Life and Acting
Arriving in America as a teenage Holocaust refugee, Jack Garfein would soon rise to the top of his field. Life and Acting is the product of more than...
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Dawn Clark Netsch - A Political Life
Illinois Democratic politics has recently produced the most skilled and inspirational politician in memory . . . and has also reminded us of the need...
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The Universal Jew
The Universal Jew analyzes literary images of the Jewish nation and the Jewish national subject at Zionism’s formative moment. In a series of...
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The Roots of Things - Essays
Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of...
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Vita Nuova - A Novel
Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal’s wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague from...
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Voices from the Gulag
After the publication in 1962 of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began receiving, and would continue to receive...
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The Mercy of Eternity
In his best-selling book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Eric G. Wilson challenged our culture’s blindly insistent pursuit of happiness...
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Dollhouse: A Play
Nora seems to have it all: a successful husband, three adorable children, and a beautiful home in the tony Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. But...
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How to Write
The modernist Ezra Pound asserted that poets should “make it new,” and of course by “it” he meant “the literary tradition.” The assertion...
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Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin
In Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin, Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to...
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Minor Complications: Two Plays
In a world where hilarity and heartbreak are next-door neighbors, minor complications inevitably arise. In this first collection of plays by Brendan...
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Winning Strategies for the Indian Market
The essays in this collection focus primarily on six major business sectors in India: airlines, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, hospitality, food, and...
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At Home with André and Simone Weil
Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century’s most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her...
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Just Assassins
Just Assassins examines terrorism as it’s manifested in Russian culture past and present, with essays devoted to Russian literature, film, and...
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Murder and Its Consequences
The essays in Murder and Its Consequences span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of Leigh...
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Institution and Passivity
Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection...
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Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism
The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a “writers’ writer” whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary...
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Freedom to Self-Destruct
Four decades of essays illuminate the ideas and influence of this poet, lecturer, publisher, and founder of numerous writing programs to train black...
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Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality
Can one be happy and free, and nonetheless be moral? This question occurs at the core of daily life and is, as well, a question as old as philosophy...
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Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist
Kierkegaard has undoubtedly been an influence on phenomenological thinking, but he has rarely if ever been read as a phenomenologist himself. Recent...
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Child Psychology and Pedagogy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to...
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